[joesmo]

Yet despite being assholes (ruthless in their parlance) who obviously have not on-boarded said employee or even told him what is expected of his code, I doubt their software has any less bugs than the software from shops who are not assholes (ruthless in their parlance). Sounds like a great reason to avoid working here and other places that have the same mentality. If you want your coworkers to actually do their work, it's a really good idea not to be an asshole because it's incredibly easy to get away with not doing shit in tech while seeming to do so and after awhile, most people will switch to that mode when berated long enough. I can't blame them. Employers deserve no loyalty in the US these days because they don't give any.

[hvidgaard]

In this articles terms, I'm ruthless when doing code reviews. I do it because

* We have a code style to follow, and if we don't we might as well not have it.

* It ups the game from the developers, they double check their code before checkin, and believe it or not, they catch more errors this way.

* It have created an environment where we can openly talk about interative improvements.