Director of Eng gave me surprisingly poor feedback. Should I escalate to VP?
I&#x27;m a Senior Software Engineer who was called out on the following:<p>1. Having too many PRs open, closed, and in draft
2. Having too many commits
3. Too many comments from others in my PRs
4. Pushing commented code &amp; code with git artifacts in it<p>In my defense:<p>1. Since Q1, my team has reprioritized a lot of work. There hasn&#x27;t been a discussion about what to do with the work that we all started. Also, I open a draft PR the moment I make my first commit on a branch, for visibility.<p>2. I commit a lot. Commits are my safety net. I use `git reset` tremendously throughout the day to go back to different states in the code I&#x27;m working on.<p>3. The director expects senior engineers to have very little chatter on their PRs. They should be ready to merge with little discussion. What he didn&#x27;t see was that most of the comments are from Hound, our linter. Rather than linting before pushing, I enjoy waiting for Hound&#x27;s comments and fixing them afterward.<p>4. I made a mistake. I&#x27;ve been forced to comment out code recently in some of our microservices as a temporary fix while working locally. I forgot to uncomment the code before pushing to GitHub. The director went through my commits and saw some commit messages like &quot;uncomment code&quot;, &quot;remove commented block&quot;, and reprimanded me for that.<p>I&#x27;ve been an engineer for 10+ years and no one has called me out on any of this. This is how I like to work. I don&#x27;t see a real problem here.<p>I can squash my commits, lint locally, and stay blocked when services aren&#x27;t working on my machine. But I&#x27;m mostly concerned about why this director is calling out this bullsh*t.<p>I spoke to my former manager, and he said it&#x27;d just be easier to appease him. But it feels like the director is looking for a reason to let me go by finding incompetencies in my performance. I do not want to work in fear or with paranoia.<p>Should I have a chat with the director&#x27;s manager to ask about the feedback and what he suggests I do about it?