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Man, let me tell you something. I am an SWE with 10+ years of experience. You'll always be worried about the quality of your code, if you are taking too long to do your work, if you can improve and be a better dev/engineer. It's part of working with software development/IT. This fear is part of the journey, even for people more experienced than you. Of course, more so when you are inexperienced, which is your case. You can take advantage of this fear by simply studying and seeking continuous self-improvement. There's always room for improvement, and more things to learn. But you need to do it, of course, at a sustainable pace, so don't think you need to get home and spend all your days studying and practicing coding. Just take a few hours each week to learn about architecture, testing, performance tuning, automation etc. Another reason for your fear is because you don't understand your actual performance. I once was part of a project, new to the team and I thought I was taking longer than all other team members because they were already picking the second feature while I was still coding my first one. I took a lot of time doing a lot of unit tests for all my code, refactoring to make it simpler etc, then I struggled with the UI framework (JSF was popular at the time, horrible... Good you don't have to work with it anymore) to build my page. I even asked for help of the most senior programmer in the team to solve a bug. When there was three days until the sprint deadline, I finished my first feature and we began generating a software release. There were a lot of bugs on my colleagues' code that they didn't catch. I had to sit alongside them in those last three day before the deadline to fix the most things I could before building and deploying a new release. Those bugs were critical, since many of them could break the app irrecoverably. Their code was a mess as well, difficult to test and I had a lot more effort to refactor later. So you can't know who is the bet