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I do believe that code review culture ends up being a reflection of general company culture. In a healthy culture, visibility tends to spread the positive part
by nilkn 8y ago
I do believe that code review culture ends up being a reflection of general company culture. In a healthy culture, visibility tends to spread the positive part of what's observable, whereas in a toxic culture visibility tends to spread the negative and political parts of what's observable.
And there's definitely a circularity here. In a healthy culture, code reviews tend not to be overly political in the first place, so it would stand out like a sore thumb if someone was causing a lot of unnecessary drama with their reviews. Likewise, in a toxic culture, code reviews may go from healthy to toxic and dramatic because developers have been incentivized to compete with one another in counterproductive ways.
- KKKKkkkk1 8y agoAs an engineer, how do you address this sort of mutually-reinforcing jerkery? I expect that complaining to the manager will not be effective because the culprits are not explicitly hostile.
- Drdrdrq 8y agoEasiest way? Complain, look for another job, quit. There is no way you can change the culture from bottom up. Best you can achieve is make a bubble with your close coworkers where you cover each other - but even that is temporary and can be broken by management anytime. Sorry. But there are many companies with better culture out there...