Is NVIDIA a good company to work for as a Systems Design Engineer II?

Systems Design Engineer II professionals working at NVIDIA have rated their employer with 4.1 out of 5 stars in 30 Glassdoor reviews. This is a lower than average score with the overall rating of NVIDIA employees being 4.5 out of 5 stars. Search open Systems Design Engineer II Jobs at NVIDIA now and start preparing for your job interview by browsing frequently asked Systems Design Engineer II interview questions at NVIDIA .

Does NVIDIA pay Systems Design Engineer II employees well?

Systems Design Engineer II professionals rate their compensation and benefits at NVIDIA with 4.3 out of 5 stars based on 30 anonymously submitted employee reviews. This is 4.5% worse than the company average rating for salary and benefits. Find out more about Systems Design Engineer II salaries at NVIDIA.

What are the top reviewed jobs at NVIDIA?

Software Engineer (455) , Senior Software Engineer (291) , Systems Software Engineer (149) , Intern (131) , ASIC Engineer (122) , Process Executive (114) , Senior Systems Software Engineer (93) , Hardware Engineer (85) , Senior Hardware Engineer (69) , Senior ASIC Design Engineer (60) , Senior Engineer (60) , Engineer (59) , System Software Engineer (59) , Senior ASIC Engineer (58) , Verification Engineer (48)

What are the pros of working at NVIDIA according to real employee reviews?

"Great culture around designing the highest performance products based on what can be done verses what is "good enough"." ((in 518 reviews)); "People are great and friendly." ((in 439 reviews)); "Pay and work life balance is good" ((in 328 reviews)); "good work culture and policies" ((in 312 reviews)); "good benefits and very considerate" ((in 307 reviews))

What are the cons of working at NVIDIA according to real employee reviews?

"Bad manager he was mean!" ((in 120 reviews)); "Sometimes you have to work long hours and not very well compensated." ((in 59 reviews)); "Sometimes work life balance can be hard to maintain" ((in 38 reviews)); "Incompetent middle management" ((in 14 reviews)); "Favoritism is big time." ((in 13 reviews))

NVIDIA Systems Design Engineer II reviews

4.1

99% would recommend to a friend

(30 total reviews)

Jensen Huang

100% approve of CEO

99% positive business outlook

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Engineer II, Systems Design employees have rated NVIDIA with 4.1 out of 5 stars, based on 30 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Engineer II, Systems Design professionals have an excellent working experience there. NVIDIA is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Engineer II, Systems Design professionals compared to other employers within the Tecnologías de la información industry (3.9 stars).

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30 reviews

2.0

Mar 23, 2013

Used to be good company to work for but not anymore

Senior design engineer

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

-Fast decision making -Flexible work hours -CEO has good vision but people under him not able to execute in same way

Cons

-Most of the Managers are junk ,neither technical sound nor have any managerial skills -Nvidia used to hire best talent but recently all good guys are leaving and mostly dumb guys are joining -HR has very less role ,no feedback mechanism . -No growth in IC ladder everything highly skewed towards Managerial ladder -Pathetic local center leadership ( Bangalore) don't have any vision just trying to make it like other outsourcing center

4.0

Sep 5, 2012

Enjoyable experiences.

Design engineer

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Proactive, get most out of the company, right strategy.

Cons

Financial control is crazy. Like travel controls.

1.0

Jun 17, 2010

No rewards for good performance

Design engineer

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Good Technical experience. Get to work on lot of tapeouts. Reward for good work is more challenging work.

Cons

Compensation not that great. Have to work 24x7. Apathy by middle management towards employees. Explotation is rampant.

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