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Engineering Incentives... and Misincentives

Oxide and Friends

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When Was I Happiest and Why?

Adam: When we ask people when they apply to oxide is when were you happiest and why? And I it's never based on a promotion or compensation. We want to avoid the cobra breeding when we incentivize engineers Yeah, man. It gets hard gets hard especially as teams grow. You know you lose touch with who's not being praised Sufficiently and who's being praised more than the rest of the company thinks whatever it is. There's a silver bullet god. Let's just hope that future generations of oxide engineers are coming back to this recording.

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