Pros
Most of my co-workers were smart, nice people, and the work itself was generally fun throughout the 4 years I worked there. Like most companies, they closed-down during the pandemic and as of today, the offices are still mostly closed (one is allowed to come, but only 2-3 people actually go). Before the pandemic they used to provide snacks for employees, and monthly group lunches. Pay used to be low (about 15% less than my former employer, Microsoft), but stock was decent and during the crypto rush, it went up quite a bit, though those days are over and the stock has been in free-fall for 10 months straight. I have doubts the company will ever go back to how it was in 2019-2021
Cons
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.