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Ask HN: What does Engineering culture in a super professional company look like?

8 points by nLight ↗ HN
When a company consists of a super professional developers and relatively small (WhatsApp, Netflix etc.), what does a company culture look like?

In this case, in my understanding, there's no need to make an extra communicational effort during code review for example. So you can say that a code is not good enough or even bad and not hurt someone else's feelings. In biggish companies one always should explain a little bit more and be more careful because there are developers with a different level of skills.

Or am I entirely wrong and there's no dependency?

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zygotic12
Let us know when you find that unicorn. Thanks.
_random_
It's like an unstable isotope - everyone will be gone to found own start-ups before you have a chance to measure the culture.
karterk
Every company is different. Generally, in a smaller high-performance startup/company, you will tend to work more closely with everyone, but that does not mean there is no place for code reviews. In fact, in a smaller team, the bus factor[1] is so high that you need to ensure that there is good code ownership.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus_factor

nLight
I didn't mean there's no place. I meant in my experience code reviews could me less polite. You can say straightforward whatever you think about the code.
jf22
>there's no need to make an extra communicational

There is always a need to put in a little extra communicational effort.

You can't just go around hurting peoples feelings because you're in a small company and can't be bothered to not be a jerk