Syndrome of the impostor

2018: A situation in the IT companies: 58% have a syndrome

At the beginning of September, 2018 results of the anonymous employee survey of the technology companies conducted on social network Blind were published. It is more than a half (58%) of the respondents working in Amazon, Facebook, Microsoft and  Google  consider that  do not deserve the work and  provision, despite  the received achievements.  In total  10,400 people were polled.

It is more than a half of the staff of Amazon, Facebook, Microsoft and Google say that they do not deserve the work

It is about a so-called syndrome of the impostor when it seems that the person got somewhere unfairly and looks there much more silly than people around. In existence of such syndrome 73% of staff of Expedia were recognized that is the highest rate among the polled IT companies. The complete list following (in brackets shares of the employees considering that they do not deserve the work are specified):

1. Expedia (73%);

# Salesforce.com (67%);

1. Amazon (64%);

# Booking.com (64%); # LinkedIn (63%); # Airbnb (62%);

1. Facebook (59%);

# Oracle (58%);

1. Microsoft (56%);

# Intuit (56%);

1. Google (56%);

# Uber (56%);

1. Lyft (54%);

# Intel (54%); # eBay (50%).

The personnel of Cisco and Apple more rare consider to itself unworthy work in the companies — pointed 47% and 45% of survey participants to it respectively.

One of employees of Salesforce said that he considers himself the impostor even 14 years of work later in the cloud company on the software engineer's position. Other anonymous worker noted that he  tested a syndrome of the impostor after receiving work in  the large company.

According to the International Journal of Behavioral Science edition, the syndrome of the impostor meets in all industries. About 70% of people in the world test such syndrome at some point of the life, and it concerns both men, and women and also different specialists, including financial top executives, marketing managers, doctors, programmers, etc. And in the technology industry the problem meets rather often.^[1]

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