Re:No code reviews by default
by btschaegg on Thursday January 06, 2022 @05:35PM
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Thanks for your response :)
> [...] alongside the culture of my employer [...]
I think you've hit the nail on the head here. As many others have said in different HN posts, culture is hard to change. And I would also understand the argument that one can also enforce culture changes with policies; my hope up to now simply has always been that engineers could "overrule" some artificial time limits in favor of more collaboration by referencing such a policy.
I guess if you're starting from a context where code reviewing practices "just work", introducing explicit policies also can't improve much, anyway. On that note: If you happen to know a good heuristic to detect such cultures during interviews or the like, I would be extremely interested :)
> [...] alongside the culture of my employer [...]
I think you've hit the nail on the head here. As many others have said in different HN posts, culture is hard to change. And I would also understand the argument that one can also enforce culture changes with policies; my hope up to now simply has always been that engineers could "overrule" some artificial time limits in favor of more collaboration by referencing such a policy.
I guess if you're starting from a context where code reviewing practices "just work", introducing explicit policies also can't improve much, anyway. On that note: If you happen to know a good heuristic to detect such cultures during interviews or the like, I would be extremely interested :)