I've seen quite a few posts claiming that Google's code quality standards are a fair bit higher than most companies including other members of FAANG.
Stringent code reviews are often cited as a contributing factor.
What else enables Google to hit this quality bar?
How does Google incentivize engineers to spend so much time reviewing code? Or addressing tech debt / refactoring / rewriting when such hygiene tasks may jeapordize meeting deadlines?
How does Google maintain developer velocity / productivity while keeping such a high quality bar?
Besides code reviews, what other metics does Google use to measure the quality of a codebase?
Appreciate the insight.
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Now there’s a lot of google code that is not of any reasonable quality. Google code is much harder to understand in general because everyone is trying to be so smart and demonstrate “difficulty” for all the wrong reasons.
In my experience, Google is the only company that does this.
> what makes Google formatter better?
The coding style guidelines are a lot stricter (more anal and much longer guidelines) than any formatter you can find out there (or they might have open sourced the google formatter, I probably would call it Google Anal).
In short, formatted code means little. If the code sucks, then it sucks no matter how much you format it.