
Manager: We lost our best engineer today. CEO: The one leading payments? Manager: Yes. CEO: Did another company offer more money? Manager: No. CEO: Then why leave? Manager: He said he was tired of fixing the same production issues every week. CEO: That’s part of the job. Manager: He didn’t mind fixing issues. He minded that nobody wanted to fix the root cause. CEO: We prioritized speed. Manager: He wanted quality. CEO: So he left over that? Manager: He left because he felt like a firefighter, not an engineer. Good engineers don’t just want to solve problems. They want to eliminate them.






















