You will be fine. There are two key comments: (1) "require a lot of self-study"; and (2) everyone here likes you and wants you to succeed". In my experience w

You will be fine. There are two key comments: (1) "require a lot of self-study"; and (2) everyone here likes you and wants you to succeed". In my experience when you choose to work in high tech, your learning never stops. So self-study is essential to stay up to date. In your masters degree is simply the foundations upon which you will build your personal technical prowess. I have had at least 3 jobs where I had to learn at high speed on my own time to come up to speed on areas that I didn't have prior experience. One of them was WAN, LAN, internet networking and all the protocols. Another was to become an Oracle and then DB2 DBA. Then there were times I had to quickly learn new business practices in order to understand what wasn't properly documented in the requirements. If you don't like the idea of ongoing self-study, then the question of you working in the right industry (not just your current job) for you is relevant.