The Importance of Trust in Engineering

In a previous job, I actually had a little bit of a similar situation. Product managers and UX designers would crank out these really high-fidelity mockups and wireframes. And then as developers, we would just sit back and build them,. Like they would be super proud if we cranked out a pixel-perfect implementation of their designs. They were just so happy with that. We got this incentive system where our job, where we were rewarded, was to crank out something that exactly replicated what they came up with. In the end, the product suffered as a result of it because we kind of shut off, shut that off.