Why the hate? You’ve obviously had some shitty experiences but I’ve never done anything to deserve your attitude.

> I can imagine that you had fun mingling with the commoners for a day, now try it on all of your actual work, and with the whole C-level team gang up on you for each review.

You literally know nothing about me, my experiences or how I conduct my life, and rather than listen to people with a different experience to yours, you choose borderline abuse.

This is the comments section of HN. Take a break and get some perspective.

I agree with the others commenting here and can't relate to your experience at all. Review is a huge positive and while it does "slow things down" it usually is preventing people from slamming into walls at high speed, so that's a positive too.

Maybe your work experience is mostly in a high stress, prototype-heavy environment where it's more important to launch something than it is to have a maintainable, incrementally improving codebase? I worked at a consultancy like that and it was very different from "big product" long term work.

As for the social dynamics, it sounds like your workplace culture just blows.