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How do you explain engineers who are great and motivated while working on less sexy work?
by tolbish 6y ago
How do you explain engineers who are great and motivated while working on less sexy work?
- tester756 6y agothe ones with good pay check? /s
- gumby 6y agoSome people just love a certain legacy system (in the old days of more experimentation it was legacy hardware too) and want to be able to stay with it as long as possible. This doesn't prevent them from keeping up with the latest stuff either BTW.
- NAHWheatCracker 6y agoYou can have great engineers in maintenance, I didn't say all great engineers are on greenfield work. The ones working on greenfield projects have been the ones used as the bar to measure other engineers by, in my experience. This works both to glorify the greenfield engineers and hold back the engineers stuck in maintenance. Motivation is very personal. Some people are motivated in everything they do. A lot of engineers are motivated by working on high quality code or new technologies. Others are motivated by perceived fairness in how work and rewards are assigned. For those latter two sets of people, being stuck in maintenance and having greenfield engineers used as examples of how to be better can be demotivating.