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Nvidia employees can work 7 days a week until 2 a.m.But few leave because of pay

Ten people who either worked at the company or are still employed at the firm described the environment as a pressure cooker.

APNvidia, the Santa Clara, Calif.-based maker of semiconductors used to power artificial intelligence technology, boasts a relatively low worker attrition rate due to the fact that its employees are given stock grants that typically vest over a four-year period. A real estate agent based in nearly Palo Alto, Calif. told Bloomberg News that he has worked with several Nvidia employees — some of whom make down payments of between 40% and 60% on homes worth millions of dollars. Jensen Huang, Nvidia’s co-founder and chief executive officer, told CBS’s “60 Minutes” in an interview that he pushes employees hard because “if you want to do extraordinary things, it shouldn’t be easy.”

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