Jensen Huang does not hold private meetings with direct subordinates

“I don’t have private meetings with any of them, because that’s impossible,” Mr. Huang said in his podcast computer scientist Lex Fridman broadcast earlier this week. “We raised a problem, and we all worked together to solve it.”

Huang describes the company’s workflow as “optimally collaborative design.” The head of Nvidia said that he mainly manages engineers with expertise in CPU, GPU, algorithms and design. At the meeting, he will discuss with everyone, each person will know when to contribute ideas.

“Whoever wants to ignore it can ignore it,” Huang said. “They know when to pay attention.”

According to Huang, meeting with all or a group of subordinates helps everything be analyzed and reasoned through, allowing everyone to interact and come up with common solutions. However, he is not afraid to criticize employees if they “don’t contribute ideas in areas that can be done”.

Theo Business Insiderthe way Nvidia CEO organizes meetings is quite similar to Steve Jobs. When he was alive and running Apple, this CEO encouraged employees to debate in meetings and find weaknesses in each other’s arguments.

In his talk with Fridman, Huang also challenged common organizational structures, including the “hamburger style” — which describes senior leadership as the top part of the cake, middle management as the meat in the middle, and the rest of the employees as the bottom part of the cake.

“They all look the same, and that doesn’t make sense to me,” Huang said.

Theo TechCrunchNvidia CEO is known to be strict with employees. He values ​​pushing employees to their limits, thereby helping them improve. “I would rather torture you to become great, because I believe in you,” Huang said in a conversation with Stripe CEO Patrick Collison in 2024.

Also in 2024, in a speech at Stanford Business School, Huang said that CEOs should have the largest number of employees. Because, this is the best position to “lead others to achieve greatness, inspire and empower”.

Huang himself is also passionate about his work. “Work is a wonderful thing. I always work as much as possible,” he said at the 2024 Stripe Sessions event, adding that he works from the moment he wakes up to the moment he goes to bed. He even “didn’t remember anything after watching a movie because he was thinking about work”.

The head of Nvidia said he has very high standards for himself. In an interview with 60 Minutes the same year, he described himself as “demanding, a perfectionist and not easy to work with”.