Jen-Hsun Hu is most beloved tech boss

Nvidia staff throw flowers before him

A list of the most favourite bosses in tech has turned up Jen-Hsun Huang, chief executive of Nvidia as the most beloved.

He ranked No. 6 in Glassdoor’s 2017 survey of the highest-rated CEOs with a 99 percent approval rating and while Nvidia hunts the one percent of naysayers to place them before the HR’s anti-aircraft gun, the news has left us pondering.

Huang co-founded Nvidia which is best known for gaming graphics chips and is turning its attention to artificial intelligence and self-driving technology.

He is the sort of person that Donald Trump wants to keep out of the country, he was born in Taiwan and came to the United States at the age of 10. He was inspired by working for AMD and is not considered the easiest person to get on with. His management method is based on the fact that his outfit nearly died after a product they had worked so hard to develop did not work.

Wired once described it as: “Huang is Nvidia’s amiable patriarch, doling out equal doses of reassuring hugs and tough love. He roams the halls of company headquarters, chatting and laughing with workers, remembering the names of their spouses and asking after their children.”

However, he has little tolerance for screwups. In one legendary meeting, he’s said to have ripped into a project team for its tendency to repeat mistakes. “Do you suck?” he asked the stunned employees. “Because if you suck, just get up and say you suck.” The message: If you need help, ask for it.”

According to Glassdoor Nvidia provides “a fantastic environment for forward-thinking engineers, computer scientists and marketers… it is a big company that thinks it is a startup.”

Elon Musk was Number Eight on Glassdoor’s list. He didn’t get a 98 percent approval rating for leading Tesla, but got his score for running SpaceX. Musk is another one who Trump would in theory want out of the country. He was born in South Africa.

Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, he was at number ten and Apple’s Tim Cook was at a fairly dismal Number 53. Brad Smith of Intuit at 13; Marc Benioff of Salesforce at 15; Sundar Pichai of Google was at. 17; and Shantanu Narayen of Adobe at 19.

The top CEO on the overall list was Benno Dorer who runs Clorox.