Nvidia may be worth $4.8 trillion, but its employees still have to pay up at the company cafeteria.
The chipmaker fueling the AI boom, led by CEO Jensen Huang, is the most valuable company in the world by market cap, towering above other tech giants like Google, Apple, and Amazon. But that doesn’t mean the company is giving away lunch for free.
Gergely Orosz, a software engineer and author of the The Pragmatic Engineer newsletter, highlighted the issue of Nvidia’s food policies in a thread on X after a recent visit to the company’s Santa Clara, Calif. headquarters.
“Snacks and coffee are not free: You have to pay for them. This would be unusual at Big Tech, but no big deal for devs here,” Orosz wrote in a post.
Former employees who spoke to Business Insider clarified the company’s cafeteria meals are subsidized, not free. While coffee is generally free, employees must pay for some bottled drinks and drinks from on-site cafés.
