Nvidia built a $5 trillion company while making employees pay for their own lunch—but they get far more lucrative perks like stock discounts

Nvidia may be worth $5.6 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 free lunch. Gergely Orosz, a software engineer and author of The Pragmatic Engineer newsletter, highlighted Nvidia’s food policies in a June thread on X after a visit to the company’s Santa Clara, Calif., headquarters. “Snacks and coffee are…