Are you sure that the problem is programming itself, and not stress itself? Ie. if you were a biology major or whatever, and you were stressing out over intervi

Are you sure that the problem is programming itself, and not stress itself? Ie. if you were a biology major or whatever, and you were stressing out over interviews for pharma companies, would it be the same? If yes, then you're kindof in luck, because it's not about CS, you're just stressing out. In this case, get help on that. As other people here have asked, do you enjoy programming as a past time? Do you write stupid little things for youself? Have you made N websites for yourself? Have you compiled the Linux kernel just for fun? If the answer is "yes, I like doing things like this in my past time", then you're on the right track to be a programmer. If no, then maybe not. In that case, you can still be a good programmer, google "cal newport follow your passion is bad advice". In any case, if you decide you don't want to be a programmer, a good parallel path you could go into (which friends of mine who aren't really interested in programming have gone into) is Data/Analytics/DataScience. Essentially you can make roughly equivalent money by helping companies make decisions based on their data. There is a stack of roles here, from infra, to data engineer, all sorts of analyists, data scientists, and so on (the division is not clear). If you want, you can have a very rewarding and successful career here and just do SQL if you go into the Analytics/Data Science region of the stack, you don't even have to write Python on an everyday basis.