[xcambar]

A company I have visited had, for some obscure reason, decided that teams should have their own fun/memorable names. Almost 2 years after implementation, every new hire's first comment was: "it's impossible to navigate the org with those names, we have no idea of what each team is doing".

I could live with funny+descriptive, but for all that is good, funny only just does not work.

[tabreu]

This. Balance is key imo.

[grahar64]

Yes, and we should change an entire companies culture to make a new hire onboard slightly faster /s

[surement]

the average tenure for software engineers at most companies is two years, so yes

it's not just onboarding, a newer/more junior engineer is much more likely to misunderstand something and introduce a bug if specific context is required to understand the code

[xcambar]

In this occurrence, I couldn't measure the benefits of that specific element of culture.

It may have been silent and powerful, I'll spare you the extra comment ;)