imposter syndrome
hello all.
I'm starting my first full time position at a big tech company next week, and I feel way under qualified. People like to throw around the term 'imposter syndrome' a lot but I genuinely don't know how I ended up here.
I asked my manager if there was anything I should study before starting, but he said not to worry about that. So for the past few weeks I've been anxiously sitting on my hands and waiting for my start date.
I feel like i need to spend as much free time as possible learning whatever it is I'll be working on, but fear burnout (I've burnt out of IT/Sysadmin work this way.) does anyone have advice for someone in my position?
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What are you going to be doing there?
Post the job description w/o doxxing the company, and there will be plenty of people with suggestions
jd is pretty generalized due to the way the company hires, but my team is for internal tooling I believe.
Key Job Responsibilities
Collaborate with experienced cross-disciplinary (people who work at company) to conceive, design, and bring innovative products and services to market.
Design and build innovative technologies in a large distributed computing environment and help lead fundamental changes in the industry.
Create solutions to run predictions on distributed systems with exposure to innovative technologies at incredible scale and speed.
Build distributed storage, index, and query systems that are scalable, fault-tolerant, low cost, and easy to manage/use.
Design and code the right solutions starting with broadly defined problems.
Work in an agile environment to deliver high-quality software.
What techs?
manager would not disclose, probably nda related until the first day.
I'd imagine there is a lot of proprietary/in house stuff though.
That's odd