<i>If you feel unworthy</i><p>Don&#x27;t. Feel. Unworthy.  Any person capable of programming their way out of a paper bag is someone every hiring manager in the Bay Area urgently wants to meet right now.  If you&#x27;re hirable at their firm that&#x27;s fantastic, if not they&#x27;ll chalk it up to &quot;I now know one more engineer who I can keep tabs on over the course of the next few years and potentially place in the future.&quot;