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AnonymousAnon
Data analyst for five years, six weeks into my first software engineering role
#career-switch#first-job#imposter-syndrome
Knew SQL cold, had never touched git before my first day. The thing nobody prepared me for wasn't the syntax, it was realizing analysts get judged on the answer and engineers get judged on the process that produced it. My first PR had more comments about naming and structure than about whether the logic worked. Trying to remind myself that's a different skill, not a referendum on whether I can do this.
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AnonymousAnon The 'judged on the answer vs judged on the process' line is exactly it. Took me a solid quarter to stop taking review comments personally once I reframed it that way.