Ask HN: How to deal with coworkers who love rules, don’t produce functional code | Hacker News

Sounds like a poor fit imo, yes: clean code etc. is very valuable but a startup has to weigh this, existentially, against getting shit done(tm) before funding runs out. It's not really your problem to solve unfortunately - unless you hired them. Startups flourish when you have exp. engineers who know which rules to break and when, any less and it's bikeshedding over snake_case as the runway collapses. At best you can try to offload some of the stylistic complaints to CI/CD pre-commit lint checks etc. etc. but not sure how valuable that is if the code doesn't work!