October 16, 2025
Estimated reading time: 6 minutes
It all starts and ends with establishing a good code review culture.
Code reviews are intended to improve our coding skills, identify risks early, and foster learning from one another. In best-case scenarios, they raise the overall quality of the product and help teams move faster with confidence. At the worst, they create frustration, slow everything down, and undermine trust.
Coming from QA into engineering management, I have seen how reviews that drag on for days over trivial things can affect morale.
One of the reasons I started creating shared review guides for my teams was that I had been through reviews that felt like battles, where comments were abrupt, nitpicky, and left PRs frozen for days.
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October 16, 2025
