Great suggestions here. I’d add to understand the problem that you are trying to solve. I often thought that my inadequacy at a previous company had to do with

Great suggestions here. I’d add to understand the problem that you are trying to solve. I often thought that my inadequacy at a previous company had to do with lack of technical knowledge, and even though that was true I was not familiar at all with the project I was working with. Use the debugger a lot, step through code until you have an idea of what is doing what and why is doing that. This knowledge would help you have better questions, i.e. instead of something like “how does the widget X works” have questions like “why when X happens are we making Y API call?” At the end of the day, remember that you are paid for making money for your company, not for above-average technical skills! So, focus on the task at hand, throw console.log and debugger everywhere and understand your company’s app and how they are using whatever technology they are using. I’m also self taught and I’ve been there, you got this!