Don't Give Your Best Engineers Easy Work

Dont Give Your Best Engineers Easy Work

The worst thing you can do for your best engineers? Give them easy work. It's the quickest way to loose them.

They may "hate you" for it at that moment (for not giving them the "easy stuff"), but they will learn to appreciate it over time.

Your job isn't to make them comfortable; it's to make them great.

I like to say: Tough love builds legends.

This article was originally published on https://craftengineer.com/. It was written by a human and polished using grammar tools for clarity.
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