Even Skilled Developers Feel like Frauds
do you belong here? or like… are you just faking it really well? you fix a bug. a really annoying bug. the kind that makes you question your life choices, your degree, and frankly — whether you should've just opened a bakery instead. your manager says "great work." the team claps. slack is full of 🎉 and your brain, predictably, goes: "hmm. luck." i swear. tech people don't celebrate wins. we audit them. and then we google if what we just did was even the right approach. 📋 The Survey we ran a survey. turns out, it's all of us. About This Survey 29 respondents — CS students, software developers, data scientists, and tech leads — answered 18 questions about imposter syndrome. Conducted in March 2026. Most respondents were CS/IT students (65.5%), followed by software developers (17.2%) and data scientists (10.3%). Over half (58.6%) had 1–3 ...