remember that there's great value in always being the dumbest person in the room. as long as you're always learning regardless of your learning rate you will le

remember that there's great value in always being the dumbest person in the room. as long as you're always learning regardless of your learning rate you will leave with much more than you think. that being said, the point at which you should feel comfortable in a project is the point once you can mimic the whole project yourself. for small projects this may just take a couple months. for large projects this could take much longer. you can narrow your scope bye fixing the range of types of work. this can be done by restricting yourself to backed, frontend, data... this gives you the opportunity to get better more quickly because you can focus more. this does however limits your contributions, may not always be an option, and maybe over reacting the other option is to just get better at estimating time. track all of your time, don't report it if you don't have to. if you become good at estimating your time, and use those in your projections, you will feel far more confident. include learning time. this is a skill that most engineers don't have. it also helps to remember that regardless of how slow you are, any work your complete his work somebody else doesn't have to do. how fast do army not be the most marketable part of who you are. discover if your value add is elsewhere even if it is just a cog that does things that others don't want to. that it value and appreciated. other values may be communication, documentation, education, management, culture, ... also, when always pushing yourself it's easier to feel behind. you won't need to push yourself your whole life. a co-worker of mine said he would never work at a startup again because he always had to push to learn new technologies and had to wear too many hats. he is an Excellent developer (better than most I know who love working at stadtups) who didn't thrive in that environment.