[chetanahuja]

" code reviews and whitespace. I have never worked in an environment where we had that kind of money to spend."

Also my experience with google coding practices. Code reviews process can be excruciatingly long and painful (especially when you're starting out). Lots of back and forth over things like whitespace between operator/operand and whether to put the stream operator at the end of a continuing line or at the beginning of the continued line etc.

Someone else said that the google practices are optimized for code maintainability rather than developer efficiency. Absolutely true. Reading code (at least C++ which I have experience with) at google is a joy while writing (and submitting) code is at best a chore. At it's worst it's bad enough that I've seen a new hire (senior engineer, known for delivering at a high level from his previous company) go back to his old company after a quarter or so of frustrations with the process.