I think he means "not a team player" in a very literal sense: if you are too lazy to organize and document your code, you are valuing a few minutes of your time

I think he means "not a team player" in a very literal sense: if you are too lazy to organize and document your code, you are valuing a few minutes of your time as more important than much more of someone else's. That "someone else" is most likely on your team. I think that alignment and organization is important, but any formal system -- e.g., align all basic blocks of assignments -- is bound to be irritating. I align related statements, with liberal whitespace to distinguish unrelated sections of the same basic block. "Why" comments are key not only on code, but on data structure definitions also. Is that tree any old tree, a min-heap, a BST, a DAG?