I'm currently not working in tech, but I will again sometime within the next year or so, and I've …

>The industry wants to do away with code review, meaningful testing, computer security, and reliable services. Why swim upstream? You can't actually do anything about it so why try? Because habits beget habits, and in form imprint into your identity. I'm not the biggest fan of GPA fixation, but it does have the side effect of imprinting work habits (I won't say "ethics", because the extremes I saw peers go to to get A's is anything but). It doesn't necessarily imply mastery of your class, but your ability to adjust to someone's standards and meet them. Which is something that will follow you into the workforce, and roughly correlate with people who will meet the standards of their company. If I don't give a damn about code quality in a place I spend a third of my life, why do I expect to give a damn when I want to work on my own project in the future? Even if I try those habits will wear…

I think that's just too cynical when you apply it to the entire industry. I'm sure there are coding jobs where you are just a cog in a factory line but IME there are also those where a lot of things really are up to the individual contributor because either no one else has even given them any though or higher up defer to your judgement (which is part of what they are paying you for).

> Your bosses don't want you actually reviewing it anyway. They want you to approve the PR. Just give them what they want. Then remove the whole process and let it go through automatically. I've worked in high trust teams where we would do that - there was no gate.