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I spent my first 4 years after the university at a company with very little quality control. We had to talk the bosses into having code reviews. When we began h

I spent my first 4 years after the university at a company with very little quality control. We had to talk the bosses into having code reviews. When we began having code reviews my older colleagues never complained about anything - everything went through. That truly was quantity over quality. Oftentimes I had to wade through piece-of-shit code that really made my soul hurt. Really. Bad. But in hindsight that was good. It's good to have spent 4 years ONLY writing code 8 hours straight 5 days a week. But I never, ever, want to go back to anything like that.

photonios 8y ago
This mirrors my experience. I spend the first two years of my career working somewhere where pretty much everything went through. There were some projects in the company lead by developers that were some of the best I ever worked with. They upheld very high standards and the code was some of the best I've seen. Most projects were a total mess and nobody asked questions or reviewed code. I worked on both type of projects. I think it really helped me. Some projects I just wrote code hours and hours on end without little regard to quality, but later on other projects within the company I was exposed to people and code that was significantly better.