How to deal with different programming styles in a team?
- by user3287
We have a small dev team (only 3 developers) and we recently got
a new team member. While he is a smart coder, his coding style is
completely different from ours. Our existing code base contains
mostly readable, clean and maintainable code, but the new team
member is quickly changing many files, introducing ugly hacks and
shortcuts, using defines all over the place, adding functions in
the wrong places, etc.
My question is if others have experienced such a situation
before, and if anyone has tips on how to talk to him.