• SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world
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    10 天前

    You don’t seem to understand what “direct” means.

    “You did a bad job” is a subjective value statement that communicates nothing of value. It’s direct, but also useless. The problem is not in the directness.

    Providing immediate examples of improvements is also direct; the difference is that it’s constructive, and helps guide the junior engineer.

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      10 天前

      One is direct, and the other is not. And you’re right, one is not constructive, and the other is, that’s not coincidence.

      What ‘immediate’ even means in this context I don’t know.