# I Think I Know Why You Can't Hire Engineers Right Now - Host: [cushychicken.github.io](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/hosts/cushychicken.github.io/) - Saved: January 17, 2022 (2022-01-17T16:47:12Z) - Record: https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/63e3bd963759/ - JSON: https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/63e3bd963759.json ## What Jamie wrote There is a lot of truth in this article. > The more I think about it, you need to offer engineers some combination of these three things to pique their interest: > > 1. Cool stuff to work on. > 2. Smart people to work with. > 3. Some degree of repeatability in work environment. > > Without those, getting an engineer to join your company is gonna be a hard sell. The last line of this is pure gold. > Pitch them the truth: that you want to do good work, sustainably, for as long as you can - ideally with them on your team. Love it, and this is the right way to do it. ## Facts - Kind: [Page](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/kinds/page/) ## Appears in - [WT208: Weekly Thing #208 / GPS, Intel, Omicron](https://weekly.thingelstad.com/archive/208/), Notable ## Saved the same week - [Filecoin in 2021: Looking Back at a Year of Exponential Growth](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/866c13f3d8b8/) (filecoin.io, January 17, 2022) - [Living on 24 Hours a Day | Justin Fuller](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/179022406b3d/) (justindfuller.com, January 17, 2022) - [Empirical Analysis of EIP-1559: Transaction Fees, Waiting Time, and Consensus Security](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/b67af41ca495/) (arxiv.org, January 17, 2022) - [Introducing the NFT Security Group](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/87012c6dcd4b/) (opensea.io, January 20, 2022) - [Coronavirus: Game Over - by Tomas Pueyo](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/9fc8186aaf66/) (unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com, January 20, 2022) ## Elsewhere - Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://cushychicken.github.io/why-you-cant-hire-engineers/