Projects fail for all sort of business reasons that have nothing to do with programming.  However, that doens&#x27;t mean that projects never fail because technical folks are not aligned with the business interests.<p>Sure, if you&#x27;re just a worker bee, you can be selfish and milk these poorly organised start-ups for all they&#x27;re worth, but if you wanna step up into those senior roles and actually have a chance of making something of those options, you need to weed out folks who don&#x27;t care about delivery.<p>I&#x27;m not saying the guy definitely doesn&#x27;t deliver but there are a number of indicators that suggest that he&#x27;s not actually suffering from imposter syndrome but is actually just self aware to the point that he knows the companies hiring him are not getting value for money.<p>Even if that is true, he himself can hardly be blamed for taking the money.  Whilst I try to deliver value to my clients, I also bill them as much as I can get away with.