I reckon if you have all senior developers, and design considerations are being dealt with / communicated about in other places (e.g. ahead of time, before the

I reckon if you have all senior developers, and design considerations are being dealt with / communicated about in other places (e.g. ahead of time, before the code is written). Then this is largely how things should go: a quick once over to try and spot obvious mistakes. I've worked in companies where code review was like this and it worked pretty well.