There’s so many normal people out there who are basically motivated to do a good job, even in boring industries.. why would anyone go out of their way to build out a team of uninterested people who don’t want to be there? Seems like we’ve just found another path back to bad management.
I agree, thinking back to one project I led though, finding engineers who would have actual interest in the domain we operated in was tough. It was dry, tedious code in a legacy language (for sound business reasons!)
It's sometimes tough. I managed to find compromise by working with ICs to make it interesting by engineering our way out of the boring through seriously cool automation.
I can see how, in hindsight, that was a lucky move and I don't blame other managers in similar situations for hustling teams along with more process. It's the right call.
