Maybe it’s because I literally do not give a shit about the company or it’s products or customers. I just want money. In fact, I want the opposite kind of imposter syndrome, where I trick the people hiring me into thinking I’m much more qualified than I actually am get paid a shit ton more money. Yes I know C++, Pascal, Assembly, COBOL. Please pay me $500k.
there's a bit of overlap, once people also start coming to you for the answers to questions they don't know it goes away a bit. In tech anyway, it's a lot more common for women and for people of color to experience impostor syndrome because they're so underrepresented (and frequently treated like tokens) — in my entire 10+ year career I think I've only spent 15 months on a team with at least one other woman, and ive worked in whole departments that were all men aside from me. No matter what you end up getting treated kinda weirdly in circumstances like that.