You are the best they got: Overcoming Imposter syndrome
In the tech industry, everything moves fast. A tool that worked perfectly yesterday is broken today. A technology that you relied on suddenly shifted its license and now you have to move to a competing technology. You’re constantly being asked to conjure up new solutions to problems that involve vocabulary terms you’ve never heard of. It’s a lot, and it’s not for everyone. But here’s the rub. Because you’re constantly in a state where you don’t know the exact syntax of a new language you need to use or you’re fumbling to find the words that you just learned yesterday, it can quickly make you feel like you don’t know anything. ...