That dude is in the other team. Each team does their own code review and is supposed to ask for cross-team review for stuff that affects the other team.

The guy built himself a reputation as an infallible master programmer in his team by bullying everyone else during PRs. You know, nitpicking tiny non-mistakes like variable names, blocking PRs for weeks by always finding some unnecessary detail, then waiting for a few days after that detail was adjusted to find another one and so on. So his team thinks he's the greatest. Or maybe they are afraid to be his next victim or something. Whatever the reason, they just greenlight everything he does. And he never asks for a cross-team review.

His boss also completely covers for him, so so far our escalations just went nowhere.

[–] luciferofastora@feddit.org 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Can you create a paper trail about an impending issue caused by his creation, then let it fail in prod and hopefully get the right people pissed at him? Or is that more likely to backfire on you instead?

[–] squaresinger@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

We are doing that post hoc. We have enough issues thanks to him that actually do go to production and now we are escalating again. Lets see what happens.

[–] luciferofastora@feddit.org 1 points 3 days ago

Good luck!

[–] doeknius_gloek@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 week ago

Oof sorry, that sucks.