[foobiekr]

Under confidence is extremely rare in new and inexperienced coders.

For me, what really boosted my confidence long term was getting yelled at by people who actually knew what they were doing because I sure didn’t. But that ended up being more of a bathtub curve of confidence.

[munk-a]

You can always tell a true senior developer by the overabundance of imposter syndrome they carry around with them. Green programmers can see their successes - experienced programmers can see their flaws... the best programmers I've ever met can intuit which parts of a green programmer's system probably have bugs by just listening to them talk about it and focus in on the parts they don't go into detail about.