Your intern manager might not be directly involved with your day-to-day work, so it may be difficult for them to give you specific, actionable feedback. Have you tried asking the other ICs on the team or your mentor for feedback? If those people are uncomfortable with sharing feedback directly, you could ask your manager to solicit that feedback and synthesize the results for you.

For the feedback request itself, I agree that it's unlikely you'll get meaningful feedback if your request is too general. I like your idea of asking for feedback in a specific scenario or perceived problem area. By centering the discussion around something concrete, you're more likely to get a helpful answer.

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Dylan

I'm not familiar with Meta-specific dynamics, but the approach sounds reasonable overall. If it's a question that others are likely to face as well, you might document the solution or otherwise disseminate the information you received so it's not just you benefiting from the question answerer.

In terms of asking for help in general, I think it's critical to 1) provide the full context for the problem you're facing 2) describe what steps you took yourself to try to solve the problem and why they didn't work. Whoever you're asking for help is probably going to ask you for 1) anyway, so you might as well be preemptive and save both of you time by providing that context up front. Context is also incredibly important for giving you the right answer to your question. 2) is important because it demonstrates initiative, and people are more likely to help if you show that you tried to unblock yourself independently vs. immediately ask to be spoon-fed the answer.

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