---
title: "How to review code effectively: A GitHub staff engineer’s philosophy"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/how-to-review-code-effectively-a-github-staff-engineer-s-philosophy-nmpm14r5r
source_url: https://github.blog/developer-skills/github/how-to-review-code-effectively-a-github-staff-engineers-philosophy/
type: article
source: "GitHub Blog"
published: 2024-07-23T16:03:31.788Z
updated: 2024-08-23T16:13:45.220Z
tags: ["devops", "github", "code-review"]
reading_time: 18
upvotes: 63
comments: 2
language: en
---

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# How to review code effectively: A GitHub staff engineer’s philosophy

**[GitHub Blog](https://daily.dev/sources/ghblog)** · 18 min read · 63 upvotes · 2 comments

## Summary

Sarah Vessels, a GitHub Staff Engineer, shares her code review philosophy, highlighting its significance in building quality software. She covers how she identifies and prioritizes pull requests, uses GitHub and Slack integrations, and emphasizes the importance of clear communication and consistency in code reviews. She also discusses strategies to reduce notification fatigue, uses of automation, and offers advice on providing constructive feedback. Ultimately, she aims to improve the overall code quality and foster a collaborative editing environment.

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## Community discussion

Top comments from developers on daily.dev.

**@ali\_o\_kan** · 4 upvotes

> Code review is certainly one of the hardest parts of the job. I personally use "conventional:comments" to improve readability. https://conventionalcomments.org/

**@vanjas** · 0 upvotes

> I feel like at times a code review can be omitted in favour of a linting tool 😄
>
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