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Ask HN: How do I get more feedback on my skills/progress
Right now I'm within an organization that seems to value protecting egos over giving quality feedback that may be better to hear in the long-run.
I'm trying to get people to comment on my pull requests to gain more insight into where I can improve, and I can't seem to get feedback that is more than the occasional syntactic problem. The same is true for my 1-on-1s with my manager, and our weekly all-team code review meetings.
Do you have strategies for how to elicit more or higher-quality feedback from your co-workers? I'm wondering if there's maybe a tool that I could use to gather more anonymous feedback to get a tighter loop for improving as a developer.
- cimmanom 8y agoFind a senior on your team whom you trust, and ask for uncensored, even brutal feedback. Just be clear that you can handle harsh critique and that you’re more concerned about learning than about having your feelings hurt. You can also do the same with a peer, though you’ll get slightly more value from a senior.
- devWhoWantsMore 8y agoYou're right regarding the peer reviews, but I'm looking for a way to elicit this feedback from reluctant seniors. I've been upfront about my desire for receiving critical feedback (even harsh) with limited response :(.
- cimmanom 8y agoPerhaps start submitting PRs to open source projects, then?