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What I've discovered is your team needs to be fairly senior already for this to work at all. I once worked with a team where, shall we say, "talent" was extremely uneven, and it was pretty miserable. It was a very small team, only 3 people, and one of the 3 saw no issues with "synchronizing" threads with wait/sleep loops, paid no heed to coding standards, and just in general turned in shit code others had to waste their time to fix later. Worse yet, he was extremely defensive about any issues we brought up, to the point of not even hearing what we actually say. In his mind, any critique of his code was a personal attack and nothing else. Code reviews were multi-week affairs, leaving him extremely pissed off, and what got checked in was still below par compared to what the other 2 devs were producing.

If that person were in the same office, it'd be much easier to browbeat him into compliance and teach/mentor him. But he was halfway across the globe, so we suffered through it for ~6 months and then let him go, further reinforcing his belief he was being personally attacked. Not a good parting of ways.