They try, with things like employee recognition programs and things of that nature. I don’t know anyone that really cares. The only people who get the recogniti

They try, with things like employee recognition programs and things of that nature. I don’t know anyone that really cares. The only people who get the recognitions regularly are people who ask for them in a kind of quid pro quo when they help someone out. This is usually done when someone is eyeing a promotion and looking to really sell it to management. Occasionally, if there is a critical product they’ll give out retention bonuses, but I think those are just for people who aren’t already getting RSUs or standard bonus, which act as their own golden handcuffs. It’s more of an incentive not to leave vs an incentive to work harder. Outside of software, during a big growth phase, they were paying people per sever they built, but this was probably 25 years ago when it was all bare metal. The people I know who were around for that said their gamed it pretty hard and made out like bandits.