Nvidia

Development at NVIDIA is fast-paced. As a general rule, the engineers are smart and have a lot to teach.

The benefits are pretty good, and the stock compensation still generates substantial value for employees.

NVIDIA has been having growing pains. Many engineers were hired as a result of the success of the Tesla chips, and it took a lot of time for them to ramp up.

Other infrastructure (IT, internal web services, development process) are still lagging behind and are more or less unchanged from when the company was 1/4 of the current size.

Also, during the recession, many benefits were cut or downsized, and they show no signs of returning.

Make NVIDIA one of the best places to work again by making it easy to work here:

• Make it easy for engineers to get the tools they need.
• Give back feel-good, relatively inexpensive benefits like free lunch and free NVIDIA schwag.
• Continue the process of restoring salaries and giving reasonable raises.
• Don't blow sunshine up employees' asses so often. We know when things aren't going well. Be honest with us.