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Your question feels pretty sarcastic, but I think it'd be great to write a post about our process for projects specs and reviews. We do have an old post on the
by bjacokes 7y ago
Your question feels pretty sarcastic, but I think it'd be great to write a post about our process for projects specs and reviews. We do have an old post on the blog about code reviews that you could read, but it's more focused on the cultural approach to making code reviews less intimidating for junior engineers, less about the details. While we don't have an "architect" title, a fair portion of our more recent hires have 10+ years of experience (I don't have exact numbers though), and we're working on the best way to coordinate efforts and improve our system-wide architecture.
In general, I think it'd be great if more companies communicated their engineering practices and war stories externally – I'd love to read such posts myself! Unfortunately, it takes quite a bit of time to write a post (for engineers who are already stretched thin), and it seems that being honest about shortcomings at an early-stage company is an invitation for people to be personally disrespectful. It is what it is, but I imagine that's one reason we see such posts from only a small handful of startups, and the subject matter is often cherrypicked and sugarcoated.
So anyway, thanks for engaging with our post all the same – and maybe we'll be back with a post on architecture reviews in 5 years when all the kinks are ironed out :)