pinkunicorn

I'm currently working at a startup that has a very bad code review culture. People either treat design/coding-style comments as annoying or not respect them at all. Needless to say, the code base is beyond shitty and new developers are finding it tough to understand the logic and figure out why the code is doing what its doing. I started out by suggesting minor design changes, better abstraction into classes and functions, defining clear interfaces between different components, but most of the time no one respects or even responds to those comments which makes me paranoid that my comments are probably stupid.

How do I turn this around and build a healthy code review culture?

I've recently graduated out of college and have been working in the industry for a year and half. While I might've spent a portion of my salary earned so far, I'm starting to think about what I should do with the money that's left back. As of now, I haven't given any thought to it and its just sitting there in my Savings account earning a 0.5% interest.

I would like to know how you've invested your savings to do better than 0.5%. Any resources of pointers to learn about investing is also highly appreciated!

I'm working with an archaic code base and I'm stuck at trying to add new business logic into a 2000 line function that is absolutely crappily written with nothing but if() conditions in it. Given such a scenario, how do I go about adding a new functionality to this mess? Should I tell my manager that the function needs to be refactored and take time to refactor it?

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At the place where I work, it looks like more the number of years you've put in the corporate industry, the better your salary negotiation. I don't understand why this disparity exists. For instance, in my opinion, I've done way better work than a colleague of mine who is easily getting paid almost 1.5 times more than what I get paid. It is to be said that he has 4 years industry experience while I've only 1. Is this the case with most tech companies?