[corytheboyd]

Kind of reads like leadership that wants to squeeze work out of people. At least some of your talent is going to need to think deeply to build actual systems, at some point, otherwise you’re just selling duct-taped together garbage. You CAN sell duct-taped together garbage, companies do it all the time— it’s not very interesting to work on though, hence your “unmotivated, lazy” engineers.

[convolvatron]

without trying to draw the line between designed systems and duct tape, this question of whether or not the organization is functional is far more important to me as a motivating factor than these other things. Do I fell like the quality bar is high enough that people will demand that I write adequate tests, or will they just wonder why I'm taking so much time. Does my work dovetail with other people's? Are they depending on me? Is this useful structure or just some ill-conceived minor feature request that I know is going to cause trouble later.

Does anyone actually care about what I'm doing, or are we just running out the clock.