While NVIDIA doesn't do layoff's like many other companies, they are participating in the early activities that lead to layoff's - hiring and promoting based on race and gender. Not to mention the mass consumption of inexperience fresh out of school (cheap) labor.
This will ultimately lead to layoffs as the best people for the jobs will go elsewhere and or eventually quit which will drag down the company productivity.
This model is proven, there is still time to change.
DEI is a disease of one kind and I think its peak is behind. Will it go down or stay decreasing is to be seen.
Do not mix DEI with the increase in toxic/gang/nepotistic management, which is completely different, although such management could sometimes use DEI as one of the tools in their "everything goes" toolbox.
Self interest driven manipulation practices "all playing by the rules" are on the increase and are primarily damaging business (higher cost, lower quality) and increasing damage to the culture and job satisfaction. Almost everybody can now see numerous cases of "expelling/pushing-out of undesired people" despite proven and verifiable technical competency confirmed by the actual key people (not the "gang committee", all "playing by the rules" where "gang committee" confirms made up false claims of bad performance). Typically 1st wave has more of the real low performers, while any subsequent gets more of "unwanted" people (despite competency and other relevant qualities). This results in a relatively large number of laid off people (many from wrongfully to deeply wrongfully expelled). This shady practice makes companies rotten from the culture out (inside out).
HR has become also increasingly incompetent, supporting political gangs as the easy way, instead of addressing it. This has become open door for age discrimination and other illegal practices (might take short or long time, eventually all come to the light).
Executive management should address and fix this sooner rather than later, as this is a literal "cancer" for the company culture, as NVIDIA is currently on a path of a broken/toxic culture (like Intel).
I am sure that Jensen is not aware of this and if he would probe into this, there would be a ton of material that the gangs would use to cover their b*tt. So, it is hard, but absolutely necessary clean up, if they want the company to thrive as a healthy long term, otherwise the rot will either destroy or at the minimum significantly damage NVIDIA.
And yet, look how dismal NVIDIA is regarding the number of women and minority employees -- such a small percentage of total employees that diversity is laughable.
All companies are doing it.
Check the folks who control the most board seats.
They are the ones in charge.
I suspect some of the big three.
A little late, no? other companies are already phasing out DEI