Imposter syndrome
After joining FANG at a huge salary bump (from a non FANG company), how many of you felt the imposter syndrome? I am constantly wondering why they are paying me so much compared to my earlier job, while the work is similar. Am I really worth 2-3x more than what I was 3 months ago?
You were underestimated too much:P
Absolutely yes! Because you proved you can LeetCode!
You are. Stop being negative about your success. You earned it.
Like someone mentioned in other thread, it is not a syndrome if you were one ...
Funny. But yeah how is anyone worth the pay being offered these days? To answer my own question, they are not. It's a bubble. Just lap it up and chill.
So so true.
I thought I was gonna feel imposter syndrome but then I started and quickly realized my peers were just regular people like me - some smarter, some less, some same, but all just humans. I came from the type of company/role where Iâm used to working directly with seasoned executives and I actually feel that my leadership now is less seasoned or perhaps just more narrowly skilled than the people I worked with before. So, honestly, no I never got imposter syndrome.
You're doing the same job, but the work you produce now has a bigger impact and earns the company more money. You're just getting a cut of the that money
Google was my first job out of school, Iâve had imposter syndrome forever and didnât know it had a name until people talked about it at work. I think itâs a good thing though, motivated me. More people have it there more than any other place Iâve been I think. Was floored by the salary, it was more than my parents made and way more than I needed. I felt weird with so many friends mired in debt with shitty jobs, making $20-30k and working longer hours. I bought a new laptop and was excited when it arrived, then I overheard my friends saying it was âso shittyâ I could afford nice things like that đ
You earned it buddy. Every time I buy something in life there is atleast one person in my family or friends who would say "wish I could also afford". đ. I realized I could never be happy if I worry about what others would think.
lol, I'm in the opposite position. Many of my friends are in other industries making more than me (medical or financial mostly) or working in prestigious roles in gov't or non profit sector, but still making damn good money. So I'm like, well I'm making more than 90% but all my good damn friends are in the 95% somehow, so it's still a keeping up with the Joneses exercise. Everyone's got problems, and even if we don't, we're all human, so we'll make up some fucked up ones to worry about that only we care about.
Look, none of us âdeservesâ these salaries, ok? Itâs just the economics of our industry that allow this. Because the companies we work for own cash cows, and the output of our work scales to so many users. And we get a cut if we do a good job, and some even if they do a mediocre job. This is never true for, say, a barber. A barber can only produce output for 1 person at a time. Sure, there are a handful of stars in every industry that can make more. So donât feel bad, you worked your way up. But also donât look down on others who were born with the wrong talents.
It's not really born so much as interest and exposure. If they actively considered CS and decided they didn't want to do it then yeah I don't feel sorry for them. But if they never knew about it, I think they should give it a try.
The pay is not so much a function of profit generated and scarcity of well qualified software engineers. You need the profits for employers to be able to offer a high salary, but you need scarcity of supply for employers to be willing to pay such rates.
I don't even think about if I'm worth it or not, my mindset is I got lucky as fuck getting in the door and I'm damn well going to make the most of it. I'm greedy af, cause I'm making double after joining, and all I can think about is my path to triple.
I have the exact feeling after google HC result today đ°
Google doesnât pay that much though đ¤
Netflix pays better indeed but my feeling was actually on googleâs expected leetcode competence