[OC] Women face greater Imposter Syndrome than Men, when starting Software Engineering Degrees, despite having similar high school averagesashtobro t1_j1qyxj4 wrote
Reply to comment by roundhousemb in [OC] Women face greater Imposter Syndrome than Men, when starting Software Engineering Degrees, despite having similar high school averages by GeorgeDaGreat123
I mean I know higher education is a bit different than regular/high school, but unless it's the best uni in the country or the world, I can't imagine imposter syndrome manifesting that way. I'd speculate that any discrepancies were a result of the ratio of men to women anyways, and/or the ensuing culture from the slightly men-centric survey pool.
For all I know they just felt a bit less welcome but OP was only checking for imposter syndrome, there's honestly so many questions and unknown variables that this data seems like utter gibberish to the scientific method. Also why even interview students? Why not post grads that either have or are struggling to find a career?
GeorgeDaGreat123 OP t1_j1r71lf wrote
"Imposter syndrome" or more accurately "confidence in ability" is a very big problem at my university since the software engineering and computer science programs are so competitive. It's the 1st or 2nd most competitive program in all of Canada.
For last year's graduating software engineering class:
The median salary was 120k USD plus 23k USD in stock/options and 29k USD signing bonus.
The average salary was 155k USD plus 70k USD in stock/options and 46k USD signing bonus.
No student graduated without a job, with only 6% earning less than 80k USD (75th percentile of individual income in the USA), and nearly half in the 90th percentile.
That said, it would be interesting to see how confidence in ability changed over the years from freshman to graduating classes.
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