I’ve had to go through code reviews (as a freelancer) conducted by people who clearly were angry people and who had no (current) development experience. Their j

I’ve had to go through code reviews (as a freelancer) conducted by people who clearly were angry people and who had no (current) development experience. Their job titles were Technical Design Architects and part of their job was to make sure outsiders weren’t polluting their companies code base. When I’d justify my decisions they’d go Google and always manage to find a counter point. But their having to Google it made it obvious they lacked deep understanding of much of anything. There was one guy who was particularly notorious for being harsh and awkward to work with. I found this to be true but he was also the only guy who seemed to understand concepts so I was able to work him (to everyone’s surprise!) I saw many other developers frequently get a bruising but I always managed to take a step back and focus around the real problem - the people in charge were just angry.