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Hi,

My question certainly stems from the imposter syndrome that I am living right now for no good reason, but when looking to resolve some issues for embedded C problems, I come across a lot of post from people that have a deep understanding of the language and how a mcu works at machine code level.

When I read these posts, I do understand what the author is saying, but it really makes me feel like I should know more about what's happening under the hood.

So my question is this : how do you rate yourself in your most used language? Do you understand the subtilities and the nuance of your language?

I know this doesn't necessarily makes me a bad firmware dev, but damn does it makes me feel like it when I read these posts.

I get that this is a subjective question without any good responses, but I'd be interested in hearing about different experiences in the hope of reducing my imposter syndrome.

Thanks

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[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 2 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Good enough to make my own things or mod things.

But not good enough to get a job as a programmer.

[–] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 3 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

But not good enough to get a job as a programmer.

This is as weird of a time for getting hired as a programmer as we have ever had. Hang in there. Once we let AI deployment pipelines start causing production outages and shareholder bankruptcies, we will start falling over ourselves to hire human programmers again.

[–] emil_98@lemmy.world 2 points 4 weeks ago

Feels good to hear this. I'm also struggling to enter the industry and it's nice to read something hopeful for a change

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