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Discussion on: Describe the worst coding culture you've been a part of

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Rachel Breeze

Once worked in a company where the developers were kept in a developer room, talking was banned and any non developer entering the room was made to feel guilty. Making it hard to collaborate and ensure we delivered what client wanted.
Code reviews focused on order of methods in a class, whether classes and modules were stored in the right folder (classes/modules) and if there was an empty comment on blank lines (blank lines were a no no).

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Rachel Breeze

Forgot to mention attendance of meetups and formal training was discouraged.

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VPetar

Well that's just messed up 0,o