New Hire at Kurly's LDD Team Shares Mob Programming and Warm Code Review Culture

A new hire who joined Kurly's LDD team introduced the development organization's culture as experienced during their second week on the job. It conveys the internal collaboration methods and team atmosphere in concrete detail—things that can't be known through external platforms like Jobplanet or tech blogs.

Quick Adaptation Through Mob Programming

The new hire was able to quickly adapt to the team through Mob Programming. They picked up BDD and domain knowledge—things that would have been difficult to approach alone—by writing test code together with teammates. In this process, they experienced asking questions about knowledge gaps and sharing them, aligning domain knowledge with teammates along the way.

The advantages of Mob Programming they cited include:

• Being able to share and align domain knowledge with teammates
• Being able to directly observe senior developers' development approaches and habits
• Being effective for new members adapting to the team
• Providing a more enjoyable collaborative experience than expected

A Code Review Culture Filled with Respect and Consideration

The LDD team maintains active communication through the Slack channel 'ldd-sarangbang'. When the new hire submitted their first Pull Request (PR), they witnessed a culture where all teammates approved it through Code Review and celebrated together. Through these small interactions, they felt the essence of respect and consideration behind Kurly's development organization's pursuit of 'customer value first' and 'collaboration'.

Kurly's development team shares a wide range of knowledge—from life tips to development skills—through Tech Weekly, aiming to be an 'organization that works with compound interest'. The piece shed light on the process of building high-quality software through actual practiced development methodologies like Mob Programming, Code Review, and BDD, from the perspective of a new hire.