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I won't name the now defunct startup (well funded and founded by a proven founder) but they hired an engineer who was basically the CTO (although one of the other co-founder officially held the title). I was told that this guy (the CTO-engineer was one of the best engineers and in a convo with him, he basically told me he doesn't believe in commenting and that you should write code that is self explanatory. I basically lost respect for him on the spot no matter how talented he was by everyone else's view.

For what it's worth this was a team of over 15 people and about half the team were engineers and everyone thought this guy was insanely good (although I have no clue if any of that is true or not)

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Where I am doesn't put any stock into comments. Our commit messages are even worse.

Why do you think that is? Can you give me a bit more info into your org?

Well, a lot of people / orgs say its important, but dont do it..