[joshuamorton]

> Months in, I finally figured out that other engineers were just self-reviewing: you can add yourself as a reviewer and just click merge. So I started doing that too.

Where? This certainly isn't possible in google3 (and wasn't possible in 2015 either).

That said, there are now some changes made to make, in general, the code review process for people without readability and without teammates who have readability more streamlined.

[OneMoreGoogler]

It was in the Android repo, which used Gerrit.

I never dealt with readability, because Android did not require it. In fact that was part of their internal recruiting pitch: fed up with readability? Come work on Android! Heh.

[packetslave]

well, Android was always a bit of a special snowflake compared to the rest of the company. Separate codebase, separate build system, separate SCCM, etc. You can't really compare an Android team to a google3 team.

Culturally, it was worse when Andy was in charge, but it was still true when I left in 2018.

[gct]

Ah yes, that's been rectified now =D