[rkwasny]

Most important thing is the environment that allows you instant feedback when developing, which means just one thing:

Ability to run the whole product no your Laptop/in docker and have INSTANT RELOAD, you change something and test it in <5 seconds.

Tests/CI etc can be run when feature is complete and you are making a PR.

[charlie0]

Yes, I've experienced working at a company (remotely) that doesn't let devs use a local db, they must all use a dev db. It can take a few seconds to load some API calls. It's less than ideal, but on the other hand, most devs hate or don't know how to setup their own environments so...