请问HN：在FAANG工作第三周，感到冒名顶替综合症。
关于我一点情况，我是一名三十出头的前端工程师，没有学位，刚刚开始在FAANG工作。在此之前，我在一些机构工作了大约12年，主要从事网页开发、Drupal、WordPress等工作。
在FAANG的第二周，我完成了入职培训，弄清楚了如何在所有商业安全和政策的保护下运行我的应用程序，并开始尝试修复一个简单的前端React错误。
我在理解一切方面感到很挣扎。我在理论上理解存在的流程及其原因，但过时的文档、随机的命令输入和功能标志设置等，真的让我感到无从下手。此外，我的团队非常忙碌，所以我不得不独自解决所有问题。我已经让应用程序正常运行，但我无法从头到尾理解前端应用程序的工作原理。
同时，我感到强烈的冒名顶替综合症。我是团队中年龄最大的工程师，身边都是刚大学毕业三年的二十岁年轻人，他们的第一份工作就是在FAANG。我感受到一种非自负的精英主义，但我无法准确描述。作为一个辍学以便赚钱并减轻移民父母负担的人，我真的觉得自己不属于这里。
目前在工作中，我接手了一个应该很简单的任务，但我就是无法理解为什么它在这个庞大的生态系统和集成中无法正常工作。
另外，顺便提一下，我有点失望，因为我对FAANG的期望更高。我看到的应用程序质量似乎过于复杂，几乎就像100个不同的顶尖工程师各自添加了自己的“窍门”，只为显得聪明，给自己打响名声，让其他人的生活变得更困难，然后在撰写大量文档时自我陶醉，解释他们的小Chrome扩展或替代做法如何解决X、Y、Z（而完全忽视了他们让原本虽然在技术上不方便但却非常简单的东西变得复杂和繁琐的事实）。
总之，抱怨完毕。不知道有没有人也在FAANG入职时有过类似的感受？我不确定自己是否会继续待下去。
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A bit about my, I'm early 30s frontend engineer w/ no degree who started working at FAANG. Before that I spent about 12 years working at agencies doing web dev, Drupal, wordpress, etc.<p>By week 2 at FAANG I'd gotten through the onboarding, figured out how to get my app running behind all the business security and policies, and started trying to work on a simple frontend React bugfix.<p>I'm struggling to make heads and tails of everything going up. I understand what processes exist and why at a theoretical level, but all the outdated documentation, random commands to input and feature flags to setup, etc. is literally driving me in circles. Also my team is VERY busy, so I've had to figure out everything on my own. I have the app working, but I cannot understand beginning to end how the frontend app works.<p>Also I'm feeling a strong sense of imposter syndrome. I'm the oldest engineer on my team, surrounded by a bunch of fresh 20 year olds 3 years out of college who's first job is FAANG. There's an air of non-egotistical elitism I just can't put my finger on, but as someone who dropped out of college so they could earn money and lessen the burden of their immigrant parents, I just feel like I really really don't belong.<p>Right now at work I've taken on a ticket that should be simple, but I just cannot understand why it's not working in the massive ecosystem and integrations that exists for this app.<p>Also on a sidenote, I'm a bit disappointed in the sense that I expected more from FAANG. The quality of the apps I'm seeing seems vastly technically overengineered, almost like 100 different hero engineers added their own "tricks" just to seem clever, make a name for themself, make everyone else's life harder, and then pat themselves on the back while writing extensive documentation about why their little chrome extension or alternative way of doing things solves X,Y,Z (while completely ignoring how convoluted and burdensome they've now made something that, while technically inconvenient, was utterly simple to understand prior).<p>Anyway, rant over. Anyone felt the same way starting at FAANG? Not sure if I'm gonna stick around.