> Lots of teams and developers do code review wrong
In this sense, I'm not sure I've ever seen a team that does codereview "right".
In the before times, most PR feedback was stylistic, with the occasional bug identified. Now that we have ubiquitous auto-formatters/linters/CI, most PR review falls into either "you misunderstood the spec", or "I disagree with your architectural choices" - and my personal feeling is that your process ought to catch both of those well before the PR stage
> most PR feedback was stylistic, with the occasional bug identified.
I think that only speaks for your own experience. I have definitely seen more than a few PRs that needed significant work.
Yeah, that's fair. I have spent most of my career on high-pressure teams within FAANG, where we aggressively managed-out anyone who wasn't making the grade. And now in the startup world, we apply a very aggressive hiring bar.
I'm not sure how much I'd enjoy working on teams who were routinely producing PRs that were in bad shape.
How many teams did you see?
On your original claim, I have seen engineers put up 5x more PRs simply because they paid less attention to the quality or put less thought on each one of them.
I have seen people put up 5x more quality PRs too. But as long as they follow the good practice of doing a code review for every PR they put up (or 2 if you require 2 per PR), they got their stuff through quickly as well.
> your process ought to catch both of those well before the PR stage
We have multiple points where mistakes of any sort can be caught, and code review is one of them.
Yes, most architectural issues should be caught earlier, but some will only become evident in code: some by the dev themselves, others by reviewers.
This is only a problem if you mostly catch architecture issues at code review phase.
Not my experience and especially for juniors reviews were an excellent tool to learn and get mentored.