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Discussion on: What keeps you motivated and what do you find rewarding in your career?

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Udi

I haven't worked in a place that had a good reward system.
When I was starting out I would get a monetary reward if I met a crazy deadline, it forced me to work insane hours and doing a very low quality of work. I didn't like that, and I don't think that you can actually pay people enough to feel good with crappy projects.

For me, it is the ability to create, to make things do things and make stuff happen.
In addition, solving problems - both human problems and technical challenges.
So as long as the work is doing good for its users and it's a challenging work, it's a big reward on its own.

Money is something I always treat as paying people enough for it to never be a problem. Not being paid enough will cause issues that will affect the employee, the project and the entire organization.

So for me, if I was running a team, the reward would be to make this creation as great as possible, something the team can be proud of: refactoring, higher test coverage, better security, improving performance...

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Hunter Chang

Thanks for this reply, I agree that solving problems can be rewarding. I think it's important for the developers to see their end results having a positive impact on their users, this is probably a great reward.