[commandlinefan]

I don't know if I should be worried or not because I've never felt like an "impostor": I'm sure I know what I'm doing, because I spent a lot of time making sure I understand everything from the ground up, and working form first-principles to more complicated topics. If it's on a computer, I can figure out how it works because I know how computers work. What I do fear is that everybody else is judging me when I don't know the answer immediately, without spending any time researching, to every question. If I'm faced with something new - let's say, React, which I don't know anything about - my inclination is to start reading about it. But I find myself surrounded be people who imply that it should take about a half hour to read everything a programmer should ever need to read about React (or Swift, or Spark, or Kafka, or Gradle, or whatever the hell else people have decided is the flavor of the day today).

[dfxm12]

I don't know if I should be worried or not because I've never felt like an "impostor"

You don't need to be worried.

What I do fear is that everybody else is judging me when I don't know the answer immediately, without spending any time researching, to every question.

I think there's little to fear here. Most people's judgement of you doesn't matter that much. Hopefully you have a good enough relationship with the rest that you can communicate realistic expectations with them.

But I find myself surrounded be people who imply that it should take about a half hour to read everything...

I think this comes down to communication as well. Are they implying this? Are you inferring this? And, on the other hand, do these people really know how long it should take? In my experience, they often don't.

[commandlinefan]

> Are they implying this? Are you inferring this?

It's usually more along the lines of anxious, concerned looks coupled with phrases like, "how long will it take you to learn it", or "well, what part don't you understand", or "Have you tried asking Bob, he knows that".