The MANY Benefits of Code Review (What You Didn't Realize)

In this video, we explore the deeper value of code review—going beyond its obvious impact on code quality to highlight how it shapes team culture, collaboration, and continuous learning. While improving code is a benefit, we emphasize that the long-term value lies in building a stronger, more aligned engineering team.

Key Takeaways:

• We use code review to improve code quality: At a basic level, reviews catch issues and lead to cleaner, more maintainable code—but that’s just the surface-level benefit.
• We treat code review as essential feedback: Just like feedback in any other domain, having someone else evaluate our work helps us grow—technically and professionally.
• We build team awareness and cross-pollination: Code reviews help teams stay aligned and aware of each other’s work, which strengthens cohesion and product velocity.
• We learn even when no changes are made: Valuable discussions often emerge from understanding why code was written a certain way, even if the final diff remains unchanged. This raises the collective standards of the team.
• We view code review as a cultural cornerstone: We love it so much that reviewing code became a natural, even joyful, part of our daily routine—it’s how we grow, connect, and elevate our craft.