
Episode 360: Mixing up names and improving without feedback
Soft Skills Engineering
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How to Improve Without Critical Feedback
I've had regular one on ones with multiple people over the years like managers, mentors and tech leads. Yet most, if not all of the feedback I received was positive. Even when I stress that I want to receive critical feedback as well, the other person tells me that they do such that they do give such feedback to other developers. They just don't have anything to criticize in me. This sounds like a humble brag, but I'm concerned that I will stop growing and improving if this goes on. Due to the lack of direction, I'm trying to look at my senior colleagues and what they do better than me. Do they have more technical knowledge? Do they communicate better?
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