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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 wit
by KeplerBoy 4y ago
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.
- tuxxi 4y agoNVIDIA 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.
- rerx 4y agoVery interesting! Do you know about any longer public write ups about the matrix management style and organization of engineering at Nvidia?