Don't insult or belittle the person. Learn to critique without being an asshole about it.
On the other hand: take criticism of your work without taking it personally. That's arguably a lot harder than the former, but it's gotta be done. It helps a lot when the person isn't being an asshole about the criticism though :)
False dichotomy.
>Most malicious people I've encountered in my career are the types that comes with smiles, corporate language and all that stuff.
Also a false dichotomy.
Most effective people I've encountered in my career are direct and empathetic.
I'll merely link to the comment I wrote the last time this was discussed:
It is this attitude that drives people, and especially women and minorities, away from tech.
I think not working like this may be even weird for some of my foreign coworkers.
The things Linus has said on LKML would be fireable offenses at most companies and I'm having a mini anxiety thing at the number of people here who desperately want an excuse to be unrepentant assholes.
Even if he wasn't, I'd accept that from time to time people do make mistakes and behaves stupid, and life goes on.
Most malicious people I've encountered in my career are the types that comes with smiles, corporate language and all that stuff.