Ask HN: How to improve code quality while maintaining decent velocity?
You might be over-estimating how much attention people are paying to your speed, especially if you recently joined.<p>For the first 3-6 months, companies probably care more about having newcomers get up to speed on matching the style & convention of the existing codebase.<p>It helps to do an architecture review of the codebase and understand the overall code design focus, and pay attention to how the code is typically structured.  you could also look at other people's code reviews to see what the common areas of design thinking are.