Marcus Blankenship discusses programmer motivation (and de-motivation), which is key to job satisfaction, performance, and turnover. Travis Kimmel spoke with Blankenship about why engineering motivation matters, the unique motivation needs of engineers, mentoring and coaching for motivation, 1:1s, and self-motivation.

Listen to this episode from Software Engineering Radio - the podcast for professional software developers on Spotify. Motivation comes through relationships, safety, and environments which allow everyone to contribute.