Sunday, August 10, 2025

Zhiting Lu
Building a Healthy Engineering Team Culture: Balancing Collaboration and Autonomy
A great engineering team isn’t just defined by the code it ships — it’s defined by how it works together. Healthy team culture shows up in the small daily habits: how people share ideas, review each other’s work, and make decisions without stepping on toes. Four practices often separate “just okay” teams from truly high-functioning ones: pair programming, code reviews, shared standards, and autonomy. Let’s look at each — not just in theory, but in how they actually play out on a real team.