I don’t like receiving feedback. But… As an engineering manager I give people feedback all the time. I preach the gospel of feedback every day. That doesn’t mean that I like it when feedback happens to me. It doesn’t mean that I don’t have an emotional reaction. Or that I don’t feel called out or suddenly vulnerable. Or that I always handle it as gracefully as I’d like. What’s tough about feedback is that it targets what we are most invested in—ourselves—and for a brief mo...
