[diyseguy]

I've seen this before. I've also seen plenty code written from developers at higher levels that really should have been reviewed with far more scrutiny - but because of politics, was practically rubber stamped with hardly a comment. IOW, developers at higher levels don't necessarily write better code, often it is worse.

I think this could be improved by a system of code review anonymization that sends code reviews out - company wide - without identifying author info.