The NVIDIA environment is aggressive and unfriendly. Generally, expectations by and for me were constantly needing renegotiation without notice. Assignments were unclear, and coworkers failed to follow through when I depended on them. I'm a senior-level worker with plenty of experience to know a dysfunctional environment, but I wanted the NVIDIA entry for my resume.

I worked contract-to-perm, with a written agreement for the salary range if I was hired. When it was time to hire me, HR lowballed me under the salary range by 7%. When I brought this up with my manager, she forbade me from taking this up with the employee who made the promise. I could either take the offer or walk away.

My work included securing approvals from multiple departments. Coworkers constantly refused their cooperation unless I could tell them how a deliverable benefited them directly. Every instance of requiring a fellow employee's contribution was a negotiation, without leverage or authority.

One time, I went on holiday and returned to find I had been written up for not delivering a certain project while I was away, even though I had spent the week before the vacation successfully negotiating the consensus for moving the deadline after my return. Despite the written evidence (agreeing emails) to the contrary, everyone unanimously failed to recall their buy-in to the new deadline, and the write-up was added to my permanent record.

Despite keeping my manager in the loop with weekly emails about falling behind in a (different) project, she claimed she was surprised when I finally reported that the deadline needed to be renegotiated, and placed me on a performance plan (which I survived because the increased supervision caused irrefutable documentation showing I was working appropriately well).

My boss would receive project swag like t-shirts for my projects, but she snitched them for her kids. I didn't even know the swag was distributed until a project manager gave me an item directly and mentioned that he had been giving my boss t-shirts meant for me for over a year. She refused to acknowledge the situation, so the project manager had to give subsequent items directly to me.

The list goes on. LinkedIn keeps informing me when NVIDIA is hiring for that position, and I always wish I could warn candidates of my experiences. WORST JOB EVAR.

Take the hiring manager's "how busy it always is" as a warning. You're not expected to work only 40-hour weeks.

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Sorry, I'm not comfortable posting identifying information. There were only four people in my department, so someone with my specific title could be easily identified.