I’m applying for jobs as a senior engineer and having people reach out to me for senior positions but in the back of my mind I am nervous to even apply for these because if I get through the interview and start working I just feel like I’m going to get in trouble for “faking it” or something. It doesn’t help that a lot of my career has been “full stack” work so I feel like my knowledge is an inch deep and an mile wide.

Confidence is something that has been hard to come by in my career and I think that’s a big part of where this issue comes from for me but it’s also only when I’ve been confident that I’ve gotten burned big time on a decision I made or something else. What can I do to convince myself that I’m someone that deserves the title?