Ask HN: How do you fix engineering culture?
&gt;Problem is, we&#x27;re growing, but can&#x27;t keep engineers. In the beginning of the year we had half the number of employees we have now, but twice as much engineers as today. An engineer left us three weeks ago and two more gave notice and are leaving in January. Hiring is extremely hard because of economy.<p>So I know nobody want&#x27;s to say it, but I think that as a non-technical person, you should be focusing on pay here, and that everything else will follow.    In my own career?  if someone offers me a lot more money? that&#x27;s a very strong signal that they are going to treat me better in other ways, too.<p>I mean, to translate this into manager-speak, pay is about respect.   If you don&#x27;t respect me to pay me more than the next company, you probably aren&#x27;t going to respect me enough to treat me better in other ways.<p>(that, and money really does matter;  I mean, I live in a world where starter houses are the better part of a million bucks.  If I am getting paid $140K, and someone else comes along and offers me $180K?  yeah, that&#x27;s impactful; Even as a guy without kids who doesn&#x27;t have particularly extravagant tastes, it makes a significant difference in the amount of time I have to work before I retire.)