There is truth in what is said here but I dont think it is that extreme. I work at a circa 5k engineers company. So not small but not Amazon. However I find mo

There is truth in what is said here but I dont think it is that extreme. I work at a circa 5k engineers company. So not small but not Amazon. However I find most rules have a decent enough reason. Let's say you need 2 cose reviewers. This is to avoid mistakes going into prod. Not many reviews are rejected but if you had no code to reviews to prod I bet there would be more outages and cowboy code slings. So it acts as a forcing function. Now I dont need to break that rule because lots of other things are not degenerate. But maybe I do one day. Maybe 90% of my team get pulled away to some high severity incident and so we left in the team cant get the reviews. Maybe we need to break the rule for a day to get a critical fix out. I think yhat would be OK because balancing the reason for the rule with the reason for the fix and the reason we cant follow the rule. If there are rules you cant understand and feel like pure bureaucracy then I leave. Worked places like that where someone has a pet process and they'll shout "you holding it wrong". For most it is SCRUM but there are other ones. The people running things care more about process and ego than actual progress. Then leave.