NVIDIA reviews

I am not sure where all these positive reviews about the healthy work-life balance comes from but it was one of the worst place and onboarding I've had in the industry. Its actually quite embarassing for a company that have been around for a really long time, astronomically high market cap, in the middle of sillicon valley, to have a really bad engineering culture. There seems to be no value for the whole organization to build a good engineering ecosystem (especially on software side). There are a lot of upper managers who has been around for a while that is pretty conservative in work culture, imposing servitude on engineers instead growing them. As for work-life balance, more than half of my team members have been working past 7pm everyday and the directory keeps spamming the chat almost everyday 11pm at night. The stand-up process is a mess where there are too many people in the meeting and no one has any idea on the scope of projects and the PM is clueless and seemed to be assigned for the role to chase artificially imposed deadline. On compensation side, there is a 1 year cliff, so if you are coming from a lot of FAANG, its pretty much a year of half salary paycut

Worst part first: do NOT count on Nvidia if you're sick. Things were nice and well when I was OK, but when I got diagnosed with Chronic Kidney Disease, they did everything they could to get rid of me. My manager, with full support from HR, *doubled* my workload and assigned me to a team that worked nights in the hopes I would quit. When that didn't work, they fired me under the BS excuse that I had a 2nd job (which I had throughout the 4 years and they knew about, so it was just a guise to get rid of me). As a result, I lost all my unvested stock, my life insurance, my health insurance and my income, all at a time where I was fighting for my life. Another con is their time-off policy, which is the classic "unlimited" trick. You supposedly are not limited, which pressures people to take the minimum and they can also avoid paying any kind of overtime even when they worked me to the bone. In other words, this is just one more business that runs on exploiting people.