>For my first few pull requests, I was getting feedback from literally dozens of engineers (all of whom were male) on other teams, nitpicking the code I had written.
This is common practice for new devs, at least where I work.
Oh god, that sounds horrible. As a new dev, I already know that I don't know anything. I don't need hundreds of people pointing out every little flaw in my code.
This is common practice for new devs, at least where I work.