I was an engineering manager back in the day (Java). People would get lost in the sauce with bracket placement, number of tabs, etc., etc. In order to avoid re

I was an engineering manager back in the day (Java). People would get lost in the sauce with bracket placement, number of tabs, etc., etc. In order to avoid religious battles, I instituted a code formatter/beautifier. It would format all code upon commit. Problem solved. Although another conversation, people did not want to document their code. So I took the carrot / stick approach. I had to approve all commits and if code did not have javadoc, I did not approve the commit. If your commit was not on time, then that impacted your performance which, in turn, impacted your pay. People bitched at first but whatever. At this particular place, we were trying to get bought. Having documentation and other IP made us more valuable. It forced devs to put actual thought into how to manage their time.