Comment by Shocka1

My experience as well. I'd like to add we have a smaller team of 4 and we all have each other's backs at any given time. If someone screws up we call it out, fix it quickly, then move on to our nerd conversations about video games and sometimes other offensive content lol. Politics are basically nonexistent unless it's protecting or advocating for the dev team. It's great and I wouldn't have it any other way.

This kind of culture is harder to achieve in a corporate environment IMO, but a good manager or two can keep the team spirit if they have a strong hand in the hiring process. But I think it is a much harder thing to do than at a small org.