Ah, a serious question as an aside to my last (scathing) comment - does Plaid have architects? What about architecture and/or code reviews?
I'd be very interested in reading about that.
I'd be very interested in reading about that.
In general, I think it'd be great if more companies communicated their engineering practices and war stories externally – I'd love to read such posts myself! Unfortunately, it takes quite a bit of time to write a post (for engineers who are already stretched thin), and it seems that being honest about shortcomings at an early-stage company is an invitation for people to be personally disrespectful. It is what it is, but I imagine that's one reason we see such posts from only a small handful of startups, and the subject matter is often cherrypicked and sugarcoated.
So anyway, thanks for engaging with our post all the same – and maybe we'll be back with a post on architecture reviews in 5 years when all the kinks are ironed out :)