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 t

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.