Nvidia is also considered the most popular business in Silicon Valley, growing into the world’s third-largest market capitalization company.
According to the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) on the 26th (local time), Nvidia internship applicants were seven times more than a year ago. It shows how popular companies are in the job market at the center of the AI craze, with stock prices rising more than 230% in a year.
For college students, Nvidia has become the most sought-after company like Meta a decade ago. Among Carnegie Mellon University graduates, 40 were hired by Nvidia last year, more than three times the 12 graduates who joined the company four years ago in 2019.
Nvidia currently has about 1,800 jobs, according to the WSJ. The minimum base salary starts at $144,000 and the maximum salary starts at $414,000. Nvidia requires an AI storage manager or engineering role in areas such as deep learning and autonomous vehicle behavior programming. Many jobs require a PhD and the company requires several programming language skills from some applicants.
Nvidia employees have to go through a narrow door. David Stone, who runs the MRL consulting group, said, “Some of Nvidia’s tech jobs are so small that engineering veterans of other semiconductor companies can’t get to the scene immediately. Despite Nvidia scouting new employees for six years, young professionals are having a hard time learning these areas of expertise.”
“Working at Nvidia can be challenging because of the pressure to do things right and deliver projects to colleagues,” said Aman Kishor, a former senior software engineer at Nvidia who founded the software company Mirage in 2022. “The company has a lot of employees, and they often leave and come back.”
Instead, Nvidia offers significant benefits to its 30,000 employees. Restaurants are always available at its headquarters, and employees can enjoy its unlimited vacation policy. There is also a two-day “Free Day,” where all employees take a break to recharge every quarter.
You can see the younger generation focusing on companies that have to work hard but give a lot of money and welfare.
EJ SONG
US ASIA JOURNAL
