Software engineers at every level, in every workplace, have fears. But we don’t often talk about them. I’m asking devs at #ChromeDevSummit 2019 in San Francisco to open up, and reveal their secret fears. What is yours?👇
“Giving and receiving feedback while maintaining and preserving personal relationships. The closer you are to people, the harder it is to feel comfortable doing it." - @kng 
"My fear is that the JS community is evolving, but it might not be evolving to be as kind and welcoming as I wish. We do our best, but sometimes the community changes and there is not much you can do. I hope it stays welcoming and open to everyone who enjoys coding." - @Zizzamia
"I'm actually scared that my tenacity will dwindle - that my persistence will dwindle. Success is through persistence, so if my tenacity drops, then I will therefore no longer be a good dev." - @argyleink
"I'm leading a migration right now from AngularJS to Angular, and I've had the fear of asking for help several times along that journey. I was afraid of admitting that I needed to see someone to talk about it. Now I ask for help many times and receive it." - @pmocampo
"What worries me right now is how to make sure I focus on the right things… what do I focus on now that will allow me to be in the right place in a year? And from that, being able to support the team, while also trying to find the time to learn new things." - @giovannipuntil
"Breaking a live service, but being somewhat helpless to fix it. When I was a junior dev at the BBC I broke iPlayer. I had to go to work in the middle of the night to fix it. Knowing real people were not getting a service due to my code was a horrible feeling." - @jaffathecake
"Mine is when my knowledge becomes irrelevant. It's a fear because I'm a frontend developer and I have to constantly upgrade my skills. It’s a constantly evolving field and I have to update what I know, so there is a fear of staying on top of things." - @shortdiv
"I like my job right now, but I fear that I will stay in this position forever if I don't consciously push myself to go for the next level or next promotion. I'm slightly worried that I will feel the pressure to do that before I'm ready to. It's a hard balance." - @bonniezzzhou
"My secret fear is being irrelevant. My personality type is craving relevance. If I don’t get that I will struggle, which is probably how I ended up in dev rel. I just have to remind myself that this is my brain playing tricks on me, rather than a legitimate concern." - @DasSurma
"Deploying email. If you deploy a mass email going out to a million people you don't want it to be sent in the wrong language, because you cannot possibly fix that. 99% of the time it comes out perfect, and then that 1% of the time it doesn't." - @AreWeMarried
"Algorithm white boarding is terrifying. Generally an algorithm is already well established and you look it up, so why do I have to do this from my brain… it feels like a weird hazing thing and I think it's really bad for diversity. It’s so intimidating." - @laulaucia
"If what I’m working on is not relevant enough, or that I’m wasting time. It's really easy to get into a state where you think people will judge you on what you’re doing." - @timneutkens
@timneutkens “Breaking prod on an important day. At Ticketmaster we have live events so it could be when a concert goes live. Breaking prod at crucial moments. It could end us up costing us hundreds of millions of dollars.” - @TheLexTimes
@timneutkens @TheLexTimes “I actually don’t have a lot of fear, but one fear is that I’m not doing the best I can be doing. Not producing as much as I could be, or doing work that could be more fulfilling.” - @hackerdreamer
@timneutkens @TheLexTimes @hackerdreamer “Every time I write code I think my code is shit. And that my teammates are secretly judging me. That comes from being self taught and also working on a very small team where I receive lots of feedback on pull requests.” - @kosamari
