It is always a Good Thing, to hire an employee who shares enthusiasm for the company's Major Project. While it is desirable, and conducive/helpful to the retention of employees, it isn't always necessary to get the job done. Especially if one finds one's self in a deepening personnel deficit and many customer orders on the horizon. And I've had some employees stick around for many years even when I was fairly convinced that they didn't seem to have any passion for the product segment we were working in, though they DID care alot about doing a good job and ensuring the work met strict quality metrics.
I think that some personalities, and maybe mostly older, partially jaded engineers, consider that they will work on whatever it is that is given to them and be satisfied with just trying to do a good job, without getting personally caught up in the magic of the moment. I am sure that there may even be a few of them at Apple Computer.
Still, if I had a choice of (2) equally qualified candidates, I would tend to pick the one who seemed to be more excited to come in to work on the Giant Robot Freezer every morning, where I in your shoes. But, if I couldn't find the equally qualified, enthusiastic one, well.. any port in a storm, as they say.
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Date: 2012-10-25 03:17 am (UTC)I think that some personalities, and maybe mostly older, partially jaded engineers, consider that they will work on whatever it is that is given to them and be satisfied with just trying to do a good job, without getting personally caught up in the magic of the moment. I am sure that there may even be a few of them at Apple Computer.
Still, if I had a choice of (2) equally qualified candidates, I would tend to pick the one who seemed to be more excited to come in to work on the Giant Robot Freezer every morning, where I in your shoes. But, if I couldn't find the equally qualified, enthusiastic one, well.. any port in a storm, as they say.