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58 Percent of Tech Workers Feel Like Imposters
Over half of tech employees experience imposter syndrome, a feeling of not deserving their job or that co-workers will discover they're a fraud, according to a recent survey. Individual company results were also tallied and showed roughly the same results.
Among the 17 companies examined with survey results from 10,402 respondents, Expedia had 72.88 percent of employees suffering from impostor syndrome, followed by Salesforce with 66.88 percent, then Amazon with 64.48 percent. Apple was last of the 17 with 45.45 percent. Apple is one of only three companies that have less than 50 percent of employees experiencing impostor syndrome, the other two being Cisco (46.67 percent) and eBay (49.69 percent).
According to 2011 research published in the International Journal of Behavioral Science, an estimated 70 percent of people experience impostor syndrome at one point in their lives. The syndrome affects all people, including women, men, finance executives, physicians, software engineers, and product managers.
In the recent survey, a Salesforce employee expressed feeling like a fraud even after 14 years of being an engineer. Another user wrote about experiencing impostor syndrome after joining an elite tech company.
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