I feel like code ownership is a good thing in general. It makes you care a lot more about the product you're eventually shipping. It was a big deal at Amazon when I was there, and I'm assuming it still is. Sometimes I was not happy fixing things at 2am when I was on call or cleaning up a bunch of code that had been neglected for a while, but the feeling of ownership definitely motivated me to care about the issues and fix what was wrong.
A lot of the problems in the article have more to do with your ability to work with others and how bad your ego is. If you can't work well as a team and mentor more junior engineers it's going to be a struggle to advance your career
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[ 3.4 ms ] story [ 10.0 ms ] threadA lot of the problems in the article have more to do with your ability to work with others and how bad your ego is. If you can't work well as a team and mentor more junior engineers it's going to be a struggle to advance your career