At first glance the intention behind giving and receiving feedback seems very noble and essential to development. But what was intended to be a meaningful strategy has become an obsession that hinders innovation and creativity and in some cases productivity. When you constantly receive feedback at every turn, you start questioning yourself and you feel insecure about taking risk or making decisions that could otherwise benefit the project relevant to the company. I'm seeing a trend where managers and peers are obsessively giving feedback for the sake of giving it and it creates an environment where people feel like they're under surveillance. The worst part about the impact of this is that people are starting to sound alike and authenticity is being lost.
Stop taking criticism personally and use it to improve yourself. Don’t start with this mentality that everyone starts out perfect and any deviation from perfection is a personal issue
We need to demystify the myth that responding to feedback in any shape or form is taking it personally. And actually, It is personal. People always say "it's just business it's not personal" but the reality is business is the most personal thing there is. You're dealing with employees, you're dealing with shareholders and you're dealing with consumers and end users. There's nothing more personal than that. What I'm talking about is obsessive feedback that hinders someone's ability to make decisions that could otherwise benefit a project. In a world where everyone is incredibly opinionated it is hard to expand your creative mind because at every turn there is someone who has an opinion about something. The truth is that the legends in tech had to turn off feedback in order to build innovative products today. If you study Steve Jobs Elon musk and even Mark Zuckerberg you would see that in other for them to truly build something meaningful at some point they had to tune out other voices to stay focused.
I kind of agree with OP. I came to tech from a company that has a longstanding and deep feedback culture and at the same time puts a lot of effort in making sure that feedback skills are well developed. This is not the case at Google or Facebook. People who give feedback here do not fully understand how and why to give it. It results in feedback that's superficial, often contradictory, and above all frequently misaligned with org and personal goals. 90% of the feedback I hear these days can be immediately scrapped and forgotten.
It’s a mechanism that is abused, exploited, and done without the spirit of competent leadership or responsible care
Giving useless, obscure feedback without also laying out how to better handle that situation and offer help & tools to do it is a waste of everyone’s time. I agree, new managers or those who grew quickly from developers to managing other developers often do not spend enough time in putting together how are they helping with the aftermath of giving feedbacks.
You are under surveillance… the feedback is being stacked up ready to dump into Impact or Perf review time.
And most importantly, do not attempt any work for which you cannot realize impact in the near term, unless it’s well backed by M2 or above. We’re so f*cked.
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