[andelink]

Couldn’t agree more. I am lucky to have worked with two individuals early in my career who would take the time to really help develop team members by way of thoughtful, detailed PR comments. I attribute much of my own growth due to this, and as such I always try to do the same for others. I care deeply about it and consider it to be one of the most important parts of the job. It saddens me that most people (IME) don’t feel the same.

[beerpls]

On the other side of the spectrum - code reviews have never, not even one single time, given me any real opportunity to learn something of value. They have only ever been someone else shoving their preferences onto my coding style (for better or worse)

I was shocked at my first job to realize the code reviewer didn’t even read my code, merely glanced over and demanded style changes (which were not consistent from review to review in the slightest)

It really felt more like how you hand your advisor your thesis with obvious easy to fix errors so he doesn’t compulsively decide “well something must need improvement” and make you fix something difficult

[toiletduck]

From your multiple comments on threads it seems like your ego is strongly attached to your code - if you truly never, not even one time, derived value from a code review, either you always choose to work in toxic environment/s or you're not willing to accept feedback or defend your "coding style" well enough to align colleagues with your opinion. I desperately miss code review feedback at this point in my career after excellent engineers made me question my strong beliefs and empathise with theirs helped me build my path.