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I have since realised it had nothing to do with my actual performance. It was a people thing.
I've had similar self-doubt in the past, I considered myself fast but sloppy. I changed my opinion after a workshop on different team roles at my previous job. A lot of it was boring workshop fluff, but I loved the core message: that many personality traits aren't purely positive or negative. Perfectionists are nitpickers. Fast developers are sloppy. Experienced ones overthink stuff. Bleeding-edge evangelists ruin lo…
Also, a lot of this is just management trying to put pressure on the devs using methods more appropriate for a kindergarten. I vividly remember my former boss telling me "you are going to put down the team and have a bad conscience if you don't finish this feature on time" (an arbitrary deadline caused by a looming performance review). He was a good boss, but I would have more appreciated an honest "look, I'm trying to get you a raise so finishing this feature by this date is in our mutual interest" without any kind of moralizing shit.
- So it says in your CV that you are quick at math.
- Yes. Yes I am.
- How much is 23 times 14.
- 7!
- That's not even close!
- No. But it was quick!
One has to break the block of being afraid of failure - we all fail at various tasks. The important part is how we respond to this failures.
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Is self doubt ever about being bad at something?
Sure, sometimes it is. When I doubt my career skills, I can (usually, eventually) recognize it as insecurity / impostor syndrome / whatever. When I doubt my dancing skills, it's a rational evaluation.
I've had similar self-doubt in the past, I considered myself fast but sloppy. I changed my opinion after a workshop on different team roles at my previous job. A lot of it was boring workshop fluff, but I loved the core message: that many personality traits aren't purely positive or negative. Perfectionists are nitpickers. Fast developers are sloppy. Experienced ones overthink stuff. Bleeding-edge evangelists ruin lo…
I've had similar self-doubt in the past, I considered myself fast but sloppy. I changed my opinion after a workshop on different team roles at my previous job. A lot of it was boring workshop fluff, but I loved the core message: that many personality traits aren't purely positive or negative. Perfectionists are nitpickers. Fast developers are sloppy. Experienced ones overthink stuff. Bleeding-edge evangelists ruin lo…
I consider myself meticulous but slow. My coworker and I often talk about he differences and I always have wish I cared less about certain things and prioritized time more while he likes hat I focus heavily on maintainability and clarity.
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Such bold conclusions from 900 words and a single perspective. Isn't it possible that the author is, in fact, not good at the job?
People who are bad at their jobs usually fall into two categories: a) people who lack the insight to realize it, and thus don't work to fix it b) people who realize it but don't care (for various reasons, some valid some not) If you're agonizing over your job competence and trying to improve but feel you aren't succeeding, then it's vastly more likely that either your job specification is impossible, or you're settin…
There's also a chicken and the egg issue here; perhaps the author really does not enjoy coding and thus is not willing to put in the effort to improve?
I ended up leaving. Sometimes, the job is too good for you, and sometimes you are too good for the job.