"poor naming should be flagged in coding interviews" Exactly! And Readability process is exactly the training Google uses to ensure someone knows how to look f

"poor naming should be flagged in coding interviews" Exactly! And Readability process is exactly the training Google uses to ensure someone knows how to look for this issue, and that someone actually is looking for this issue in code reviews. There is plenty about the Readability process I don't like (particularly that one has to get it through a fairly artificial process), but checking for things like the above (which I just use as one easily understood example) isn't something that happens automatically in an organization as large as Google, with as many engineers as Google. A common story on HackerNews is just how bad the average programmer is, how crummy code they produce. Taking steps to ensure they do it better is a good thing. We can argue about the process, for sure, and there are many things I would love to change about it. But "yeah, that should be done in code reviews" is exactly the idea here.