Episode 002: "Giving and Receiving Feedback" with Chelsea Troy

05/11/20 • 21 min

In this episode, I sit down with Chelsea Troy, a Chicago-based software engineer, to talk about giving and receiving feedback, something you have to do quite often when working on software, but which you don’t always get to do as a student. Besides talking about code reviews, the most common situation where you have to give or receive feedback, we also explore how to solicit good feedback and how to take feedback constructively. Chelsea has written extensively about this subject (and many, many others) and you can find all her writings, as well as videos of her talks, at chelseatroy.com.

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Conversations in Software Development - Episode 002: "Giving and Receiving Feedback" with Chelsea Troy

Transcript

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Hey everyone and welcome to conversations in software development, a podcast on software development intended primarily for students. I am your host for her Sotomayer . I am a senior lecturer in computer science at the university of Chicago where among many other things I teach a class on software development. Today we will be talking about giving and receiving feedback, something that you have to do quite often when working on software, but whic