Comment by ghosty141

I work in a small team where we are essentially 4-6 core developers. When I develop a feature I usually talk about it with my coworkers once I made a rough draft in my head how I'd approach it. They do the same so our code reviews are mostly only the minor code smells etc. but we usually decide on the architecture together (2-3 people usually).

I find this to be one of the most important things in our team. Once people don't agree on code it all kinda goes downhill with nobody wanting to interact with code they didn't write for various reasons.

In bigger orgs I believe it's still doable this way as long as responsibilities are shared properly and it's not just 4 guys who know it all and 40 others depend on them.