Eh, I think "imposter syndrome" is a natural consequence of moving into a more selective environment and resetting your baseline estimate of your competence. I

Eh, I think "imposter syndrome" is a natural consequence of moving into a more selective environment and resetting your baseline estimate of your competence. If we pretend for a moment that hiring processes are perfect methods for identifying the top X% of candidates objectively, when you are hired by a company that only hires the top 10% of candidates, when you are hired, you instantly go from being better than 90% of your cohort to being average. You might go from being in the 92nd percentile of your old cohort to the 20th percentile of your new cohort. Sure, it's less stark when hiring processes aren't perfect and hiring criteria are fuzzy and don't oerfectly match the actual job requirements, but any time you go through a selective process it's going to happen a little.