So I have an interview coming up on Friday. In some respects the company Im interviewing at is considered a unicorn. After vetting the engineers on LinkedIn, most of the engineers are strong engineers, the “went to an elite school, interned at FANG; now at FANG/unicorn” types. This was literally all the engineers. Most of my jobs have been at lower tier companies at least to the Blind standard, so I feel a lot of these people can run circles around me and most of them are new grads (I’m 29). I basically feel defeated before I even get to the interview knowing the caliber of engineers there. Any advice on How do I overcome these feelings?
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I suffered severe imposter syndrome for a while, but after working with elite school grads, I realized they're just good at LC and interviewing. any average programmer can work at FANG with zero difficulty, if not for LC interviews. From 5 diff teams I've been on at AWS and Google, intern projects are building dashboards, fixing low priority customer pipelines, or frontend UI updates. No elite school or "prestigious" internship will trump your full-time experience. repeat in your head that they are just kids with less experience than you.
Try your best and show you want to be there, that's the most you can ask for