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Good company. Good leaders. Not the best benefits

Senior ASIC Design Engineer
Former Employee
Worked at Nvidia for 9 years
October 18, 2015
Santa Clara, California
4.0
RecommendsNeutral OutlookNo CEO Opinion
Pros

Nvidia has some scarily smart engineers and leaders. If anyone is considering starting or growing a career in Electrical Engineering or System Software, it is definitely a great place to start and is also looked up to in the industry. Leadership does make an effort to be as forthright as possible. The company is small in size, nimble enough for hard workers to get good visibility and growth.

Cons

Nvidia probably lacks visionaries. They have never really owned a market other than discrete GPUs. With all that planning and reorgs, they somehow lose the plot in the process. Tegra is yet to come to the party. There is the Grid cloud gaming market & the automotive that probably will bring in some dough, but I don't know if it will be a cash cow like the Geforce business. Until that's sorted out, compensation will definitely take a back seat. NV doesn't give RSUs and bonuses to even experienced engineers. Only top brass in management and engineering get it.

Advice to Management

Gamers are 7% of PC users. Think of how you're going to get some business from the other 93%. Market yourselves better.

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