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Geeez. A lot of people completely misinterpreting what I said here.

• uberman 4y ago
  My apologies if I have misinterpreted your statements. Perhaps you could clarify what you meant when you said: "if you give a raise to one engineer, word will spread, and you'll have to give raises to all of them, and your burn will skyrocket since engineers are all a bunch of gossips" or "Quite frankly, they are used to be overworked, have very high demands, and pay that does not match the amount of work and hours they put in. Oftentimes, they're requests for higher pay are denied which is when they become resentful and move on. They don’t care about your mission and they don’t care about your company." Please, correct my interpretation of your "trick" based off your statement: "Well, fortunately there's a shortcut I’ve learned rather than having to increase pay or give out bonuses. Invest heavily in fixed assets." How do you feel I am misinterpreting your statement? "on an engineer's first day, they'd walk in to an empty desk, sit down, and we'd say today is Christmas. Go home and think about your dream workspace. Computer(s), monitors, keyboard, mouse, headphone setup, plants, anything. And make a list. Send it to us and if everything is within reason, we'll get it for you. Now, this was first a test to see if they would make reasonable requests. Out of 50 engineers, only one made outrageous requests and he was shown the door."