The web development sphere — and the IT world in general — is a great area to build your career and spend many years of adult life in. Here, smart and driven people gather together to build great products. To build great products, however, we as the developers need to stay high-performant and motivated — so we’ve built our work culture around these qualities.
In this “be a genius and work hard” culture, we start to feel that we’re not up to the high standards imposed by the software industry; we have shortcomings, we make mistakes, we don’t know everything. Our mentors, peers, and friends, however, don’t seem to have these issues — and so the imposter syndrome is born.