𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐂𝐨𝐝𝐞 𝐈𝐬 𝐍𝐨𝐭 “𝐆𝐚𝐫𝐛𝐚𝐠𝐞” 💩

This is one of the most toxic notions I have seen while working as a developer and with development teams.

Often, developers would refer to their own code as “garbage” or even worst, refer to other developers’ code as such.

A work environment that ridicules the effort teammates put into their work, will create an atmosphere of fear instead of growth.

🔴 𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐓𝐨 𝐑𝐮𝐢𝐧 𝐚 𝐓𝐞𝐚𝐦

Even if developers don’t say it to others’ faces, when being part of this conversation, one can assume the same things are being told about them behind their back…

Developers take much more time than “necessary” to achieve a working product because they were so afraid of their teammates’ feedback.

Developers will avoid asking questions because the appearance of being “smart” is more important than learning.

In the long run, this will completely stagnate entire teams, and will probably push people to find another job.

🟢 𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐖𝐞 𝐒𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐦𝐨𝐭𝐞

Promote a growth mindset. Much more important than being right in the short term, is to keep learning in the long run.

Today, no one developer can achieve greatness (no matter how talented or smart they are) — it takes the cooperation of entire teams and sometimes thousands of developers.

Thus, it is much more important to promote “togetherness”. To promote an atmosphere of asking questions, not knowing, solving stuff together, and advising each other.

Happy coding