Had an interesting and enlightening work experience last year. Three of our top end, highly productive and very smart engineers were poached by another company (the same company), all within a couple weeks. All had been with the company around 7 years.
The fascinating thing is that they took a big cut in pay for the new job and knew they'd be working much longer hours than they had been. I've talked to them and they are having a great time there.
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We talk a lot about work / life balance and people wanting more money and benefits. And not to ignore those, but we're missing something in the conversation.
These engineers are now working on a new, greenfield project. They went back to being individual contributors, designing and creating this new product from the ground up. No junior engineers working under them, no constant repeat rounds of code reviews and managing estimates and deadlines and competing priorities.
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Minimal meetings, planning sessions, HR red tape. Just sit down and code something cool.
It brings me back to this article, which I've referred to personally many times. https://blog.johnqian.com/startup-spark
They found the spark again. I wish them well. I hope they get a good few years in before it happens again.
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