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英伟达员工:经常每周工作7天,有钱没闲花

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黄仁勋(Jensen Huang),英伟达(Nvidia)联合创始人兼首席执行官。图片来源:David Paul Morris—Bloomberg via Getty Images

英伟达股价飙升使其员工变得如此富有,以至于他们几乎可以容忍任何事情——甚至包括其苛刻的、有时甚至是不健康的工作文化。

自2019年年初以来,该公司股价已飙升逾3000%,使许多员工成为百万富翁。但10位匿名的现任和前任员工告诉彭博社,尽管他们可能很富有,但员工们在办公室里往往忙得不可开交,无法享受其中的乐趣。尽管如此,如果这意味着他们的既得股份受到威胁,很少有人愿意离开。

一位曾在企业客户技术支持部门工作并于今年5月离职的前员工表示,他经常一周工作7天,经常凌晨一两点才下班。他补充说,其他员工,尤其是工程部的员工,工作得更晚。这位前员工说,有时候,这种压力甚至会导致在会议上大喊大叫和大打出手。在市场营销部门,另一名于2022年离职的前员工说,在她每天参加7到10次的30多人会议上,大打出手和大喊大叫也很常见。

英伟达发言人拒绝置评。

这种苛刻的工作文化部分来自于长期担任首席执行官的黄仁勋。他此前曾承认,为他工作并不容易。今年4月,黄仁勋在接受《60分钟》采访时表示,无论如何,在英伟达工作本来就不应该是一件轻松的事。

他当时说:“如果你想做非凡的事情,那就意味着不会像探囊取物一样。”

然而,尽管在英伟达工作压力很大,但员工离职率远低于业内平均水平。根据英伟达2024财年的“可持续发展报告”,2023年,该公司的离职率为2.7%,而半导体行业的整体离职率为17.7%。

员工不愿离开公司的部分原因是,他们有机会在人工智能芯片行业的领军企业从事尖端技术工作。但另一个动机是坚持到股票授予归属为止(在英伟达通常是四年一次)。那些提前离职的人可能会错过丰厚的薪酬。

英伟达股价的大幅上涨已经使其高管跻身科技行业最富有的人之列。根据彭博亿万富翁指数,黄仁勋是全球第12大富豪,拥有该公司约3.5%的股份,净资产为1110亿美元。据彭博社报道,首席财务官科莱特·克雷斯(Colette Kress)持有价值7.578亿美元的英伟达股票,这使她的身价超过了英特尔(Intel)和AMD的同行,后者的持股不超过1000万美元。

通过英伟达的员工股票购买计划,员工最多可以拿出工资的15%,以15%的折扣购买公司股票。据《巴伦周刊》(Barron's)高级科技编辑泰·金(Tae Kim)称,一位连续18年买入英伟达股票的中层员工退休时持有价值6200万美元的股票。

所有这些股票财富在工作场所形成了一种不同寻常的动态,即使在高管层以外的员工中也是如此。一位今年6月离职的前工程部员工告诉彭博社,从2023年到今年,经常听到人们谈论新度假屋,看到同事在工作时浏览Zillow网站。

在英伟达位于加州圣克拉拉的办公室里,停车场里停满了保时捷、科尔维特和兰博基尼。有些甚至是嫩绿色的,这是对使其成为可能的公司标识的致敬。(财富中文网)

译者:中慧言-王芳

英伟达股价飙升使其员工变得如此富有,以至于他们几乎可以容忍任何事情——甚至包括其苛刻的、有时甚至是不健康的工作文化。

自2019年年初以来,该公司股价已飙升逾3000%,使许多员工成为百万富翁。但10位匿名的现任和前任员工告诉彭博社,尽管他们可能很富有,但员工们在办公室里往往忙得不可开交,无法享受其中的乐趣。尽管如此,如果这意味着他们的既得股份受到威胁,很少有人愿意离开。

一位曾在企业客户技术支持部门工作并于今年5月离职的前员工表示,他经常一周工作7天,经常凌晨一两点才下班。他补充说,其他员工,尤其是工程部的员工,工作得更晚。这位前员工说,有时候,这种压力甚至会导致在会议上大喊大叫和大打出手。在市场营销部门,另一名于2022年离职的前员工说,在她每天参加7到10次的30多人会议上,大打出手和大喊大叫也很常见。

英伟达发言人拒绝置评。

这种苛刻的工作文化部分来自于长期担任首席执行官的黄仁勋。他此前曾承认,为他工作并不容易。今年4月,黄仁勋在接受《60分钟》采访时表示,无论如何,在英伟达工作本来就不应该是一件轻松的事。

他当时说:“如果你想做非凡的事情,那就意味着不会像探囊取物一样。”

然而,尽管在英伟达工作压力很大,但员工离职率远低于业内平均水平。根据英伟达2024财年的“可持续发展报告”,2023年,该公司的离职率为2.7%,而半导体行业的整体离职率为17.7%。

员工不愿离开公司的部分原因是,他们有机会在人工智能芯片行业的领军企业从事尖端技术工作。但另一个动机是坚持到股票授予归属为止(在英伟达通常是四年一次)。那些提前离职的人可能会错过丰厚的薪酬。

英伟达股价的大幅上涨已经使其高管跻身科技行业最富有的人之列。根据彭博亿万富翁指数,黄仁勋是全球第12大富豪,拥有该公司约3.5%的股份,净资产为1110亿美元。据彭博社报道,首席财务官科莱特·克雷斯(Colette Kress)持有价值7.578亿美元的英伟达股票,这使她的身价超过了英特尔(Intel)和AMD的同行,后者的持股不超过1000万美元。

通过英伟达的员工股票购买计划,员工最多可以拿出工资的15%,以15%的折扣购买公司股票。据《巴伦周刊》(Barron's)高级科技编辑泰·金(Tae Kim)称,一位连续18年买入英伟达股票的中层员工退休时持有价值6200万美元的股票。

所有这些股票财富在工作场所形成了一种不同寻常的动态,即使在高管层以外的员工中也是如此。一位今年6月离职的前工程部员工告诉彭博社,从2023年到今年,经常听到人们谈论新度假屋,看到同事在工作时浏览Zillow网站。

在英伟达位于加州圣克拉拉的办公室里,停车场里停满了保时捷、科尔维特和兰博基尼。有些甚至是嫩绿色的,这是对使其成为可能的公司标识的致敬。(财富中文网)

译者:中慧言-王芳

Nvidia’s skyrocketing stock has made its employees so rich they’ll tolerate pretty much anything—even its demanding and sometimes unhealthy work culture.

The company’s shares have shot up more than 3,000% since the start of 2019, making many of its employees millionaires. But even though they may be wealthy, workers are often too busy at the office to enjoy it, 10 anonymous current and former employees told Bloomberg. Still, few are willing to leave if it means putting their vested shares at stake.

One former employee who worked in technical support for enterprise clients and left in May said he often worked seven days a week, and frequently ended his work day at 1:00 or 2:00 a.m. Other workers, especially those in the engineering department, worked even later, he added. At times, the pressure even led to yelling fights during meetings, the former employee said. In the marketing department, another former employee who left in 2022 said fighting and shouting was also common in the 30-plus-person meetings she attended seven to 10 times per day.

A spokesperson for Nvidia declined to comment.

Part of the demanding work culture comes from longtime CEO Jensen Huang, who has previously acknowledged he’s not easy to work for. In an interview with 60 Minutes in April, Huang said working at Nvidia shouldn’t be easy, anyway.

“If you want to do extraordinary things, it shouldn’t be easy,” he said at the time.

Yet despite the pressures of working at Nvidia, employees leave the company at a much lower rate than is common in the industry. In 2023, the company had a 2.7% turnover rate, compared to 17.7% in the semiconductor industry at large, according to Nvidia’s Sustainability Report for fiscal year 2024.

Part of why employees don’t leave the company is the opportunity to work on the cutting edge of tech, for the leader of the AI chips industry. But another motivation is hanging on until stock grants vest, which at Nvidia typically happens over a four-year period. Those who leave sooner could miss out on a big payday.

Nvidia’s massive stock rally has already made its executives some of the wealthiest in the tech industry. With about 3.5% ownership of the company, Huang is the world’s 12th-wealthiest person, with a net worth of $111 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. CFO Colette Kress’s $757.8 million worth of Nvidia stock put her above counterparts at Intel and AMD, whose holdings don’t exceed $10 million, according to Bloomberg.

Through Nvidia’s employee stock purchase plan, employees can contribute up to 15% of their salary to buy company shares at a 15% discount. One mid-level employee who bought in for 18 years reportedly retired with shares worth $62 million, according to Barron’s senior technology editor Tae Kim.

All that stock wealth makes for an unusual dynamic in the workplace, even among employees outside of the C-suite. A former engineering employee who left in June told Bloomberg that in 2023 and into this year it was common to hear talk about new vacation homes and see colleagues scrolling Zillow at work.

At Nvidia’s Santa Clara, Calif., office, Porsches, Corvettes, and Lamborghinis line the parking lot. Some are even lime-green—a tribute to the logo of the company that made them possible.

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