Asking for Advice Rather Than Feedback Is More Effective

Arpit Bhayani

Arpit Bhayani

Apr 08, 2026 • 1 min read


Ask for advice, not feedback.

People find it easier to give advice than feedback. Feedback puts them on the defensive, but advice lets them say the same thing more freely.

Arpit Bhayani

Principal Engineer II at Razorpay - building Agent Studio, Ex-staff engg at GCP Memorystore & Dataproc, Creator of DiceDB, ex-Amazon Fast Data, ex-Director of Engg. SRE and Data Engineering at Unacademy. I spark engineering curiosity through my no-fluff engineering videos on YouTube and my courses