I left the company after ~6 months because I did not get along well with one of the other developers. We had extreme communication problems and they were causing unnecessary stress.
I like to talk to people and joke around with my coworkers. This individual did not seem to have the same desire. On the company’s general slack channel, almost everyone would get in on the socializing, with /giphys and jokes and whatnot… everyone except this one developer. They never, ever said a single thing on slack that was not business-related. They never even said anything out loud that was not business related.
This communication style caused a lot of issues during code review. I would spend time creating, testing, and QA’ing a feature, and then code review would take at least three times as long as development. I’d get code comments on GitHub that said things like “I wouldn’t do it this way” or “I don’t like the use of a directive in this case. Read this: https://docs.angularjs.org/guide/directive”. Now, in most cases, changes to the code probably were necessary. However, I felt the tone of the comments was unnecessarily inflammatory, bordering on outright insulting.
I told my supervisor that I thought the code review communication could be improved and he agreed that the code review process seemed to be taking too long. He decided that I should get code reviews before the feature was complete, at whatever I determined was a good point to pause development for a code review. This led to an even longer development cycle. I felt as though this developer pegged me as unskilled, and thus found every excuse they could to tear my code apart. On several occasions while refactoring, I would move code snippets that were written by this developer into a new method or file. GitHub would regard these snippets as if I had written them. The developer would comment on this code that _they themselves had originally written_ and come up with a reason as to why it should be refactored or I’m not using the most efficient method, etc. It got to the point where I wouldn’t even know how to start working on a project. I realized it didn’t really matter. I could write the best code of all time and my co-worker would find a reason why it should all be thrown out. So I just started writing garbage that I took no pride in because it was going to get ripped to shreds anyway. Round after round of code comments until the code would look exactly as if this other developer had written it themselves. It was demoralizing, to say the least.
I really wanted to succeed with this company and had I been in any other department I believe I would have. I got along very well with everyone else there. Within a month of putting myself on the job market I found a new position that paid more and has a dev team with no assholes. I am much happier.