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As part of practicing giving the hard feedback you can also practice framing the feedback to have the best impact. I've found focusing the feedback around behav

• b3morales 5y ago
  Absolutely, and this has a flip side: when you try to articulate the actual harm, sometimes you realize there isn't one. And then you can learn to calibrate your own perspective about what's truly a problem as opposed to just a personal annoyance. Which lets you focus your energy and communicate more effectively.
• Fr0styMatt88 5y ago
  For criticisms of things like code (or art), I think of that as "criticize the thing and not the person". Bad: "You don't know what you're doing. This is poorly-written code that will perform badly on bigger datasets. " Good: "The runtime of this code is prone to grow exponentially. A different algorithm will get around this. " As much as possible I try and criticize from the viewpoint of wanting to make the work better instead of from wanting to bring down the person that did it. Edit: To add - I will very possibly be _wrong_ about the definition of better, which is something else I try and keep in mind.
  • Chris2048 5y ago
    If the person is to blame, focusing on the mistake rather than the person may just be misdirection. I think the big difference in the US is not (just) that people may have fragile egos, but that (pos related) the consequences are more serious - don't match up and you'll be fired.
• watwut 5y ago
  In here, I would opted for: "could we remove meme plugin from code review software?" And then pushed for that.