If it was your first interview in a while don't take it so hard. The interview game is broken and devs are rusty on their first couple if they haven't in a whi

If it was your first interview in a while don't take it so hard. The interview game is broken and devs are rusty on their first couple if they haven't in a while. The real value in engineers/programmers is can you deliver a product and ship? If you can worry little, if you can't, start some on your own, gain some confidence. If you can deliver, just practice up applying for smaller companies to get your interview game up. Never go to the interview with the company you want to work for first, get some reps in, worst case is you have a bunch of jobs offers to pick from and some leverage. Look at it this way, you were good enough to get into one Big 4 and you can do it again. But your manager is right, stand your ground, you have to KNOW that you can do it to even start. Nice guys can be pushovers and get steamrolled in developer culture, stand your ground to actually be nice, don't just do as others want, do what is right for ship and the product. Sometimes you have to throw down in the ego driven game of development and ask for forgiveness later.