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You have to judge it in context. If it's entirely a senior team then the value of code reviews is greatly diminished. You rarely catch a bug in a bug review when you're reviewing a Senior software engineer's code. those bugs aren't caught until you do testing.

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I've seen plenty of defects in senior developers' code that were caught in reviews. Please the purpose of code reviews isn't just to catch defects, it's also to disseminate knowledge of that module across the team in order to reduce the "bus factor".

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