Nvidia, I believe, might be the only major tech company besides Apple that hasn't pursued any mass layoff plans yet. Curious if that speaks favorably of their planning abilities.

Nvidia employs around 26,000 people. That doesn't seem a lot for a company that's as big as them in hardware and software. Coincidentally it's right in line with AMD, which is a lot less focused on Software and they haven't had layoffs either afair.

That's 5 times the number of employees of companies like snapchat or Coinbase. Companies that accomplish very little in comparison.

NVIDIA employee in software, opinions are my own.

This is exactly it, NVIDIA is continuously “understaffed” and many ICs end up splitting responsibilities across different projects at different places in the stack. In stark contrast to many other large companies where an SWE team might have several entire other teams of 10+ engineers just to support the tools, build systems, test runners, etc.

Engineering groups are more fluid and individual contributors get moved around a lot (relative to other companies) according to demand. And management groups don’t really have “fiefdoms” the same way they can at huge companies… possibly due to the controversial matrix management employed here.

Very interesting! Do you know about any longer public write ups about the matrix management style and organization of engineering at Nvidia?

I doubt you can scale up a hardware company as rapidly as you can a software company. You can’t just spin up factories in the cloud.

The whole chip making industry was unable to meet demand for the last few years, so they probably aren’t under much pressure to downsize.

Chipmaker Nvidia on Tuesday announced a host of initiatives designed to broaden its reach in artificial intelligence and take advantage of what the company calls AI's "iPhone moment."