Let’s hear your “Fake it ‘til you make it” story!

Feb 27 23 Comments

I sense that among this community are untold riches of inspiring/ hilarious /cringeworthy stories of yeeting oneself into something you had no business doing. Let’s hear it!

TC: $140k YOE: 2

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  • At my first company when My presentation suck my associate director (leadership) made this statement “fake it tíll you make it”

    guess what after 4 years
    That guy is in google

    So it works 👍🏽
    Feb 27 3
  • everyone thinks i am expert at lot of stuff but every damn thing i struggle a lot and magically find a way to come out on top without actually learning anything fundamental. It has been 8 years faking and still going on.
    Feb 27 5
    • Amazon
      Angry AF

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      Angry AF
      Not learning anything fundamental but wanting to touch touch everything and piece shit together? Shit I’m a staff engineer then. Tf.
      Feb 27
    • New
      fiairng257

      New

      fiairng257
      Yes handling ambiguity and doing well is a great skill. Don’t undersell yourself
      Feb 27
  • Apple
    siliconbay

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    siliconbay
    I feel I am just faking it everyday. Sometimes I try to find an answer and if I can’t. I ask someone on the team. It’s a different team member every time.
    Feb 27 0
  • Square
    IwTu60

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    IwTu60
    I am a mostly self taught engineer and thus was missing a TON of foundational CS knowledge earlier in my career. It didn’t affect my work *that* much but it was super awkward when teammates would start having theoretical/academic conversations and I was clearly out of my league.

    So I signed up to do campus interviews for interns in their 3rd/4th years of CS. My interviews were just having them teach me CS concepts.

    Like literally: “Ok, let’s pretend you’re the professor and I’m the student, and you teach me about Big O”. It worked beautifully.
    Feb 27 2

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