Additionally, have interesting work.

Don't complain about not finding the best engineers if you're not an engineering-centric company; by definition, you don't need the best, you just need good enough. There's nothing wrong with this.

Exactly. Interesting work goes a long ways. Some [boring] things you can't pay me enough to keep doing.

You will get maybe 2x more needles out of +10x more haystack. Not that it does not work, but you will need to get very good at filtering.

No, those motivated by money will come to you.