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Impostor syndrome is not incompatible with being smart. Quite the contrary. It could be an extension of the Dunning-Kruger effect. The more you know and understand something, the more you can judge your performance and notice your failures, thus making you feel like an impostor.

Confidence from being told you're smart might be important for child development and performance in school. Cheating and dishonesty are morally bad but most of the times this behavior leads to good outcome (but very bad sometimes). Looking at it another way, it's called hacking/gaming the system/bending the rules.

The results of the study show that kids are more likely to cheat, but they don't show it is bad for a successful and happy life.

They lie. Most candidates will tell you the coding exercise took less than it actually did because 1) they want to appear efficient 2) you said it would take only 3 hours so if they say it took 8 hours it would look like a failure

Source: me, last week, for another company. Plus, programming is not just writing code, most technical interviewers will want to see the global design, unit tests, comments, etc... Which are not accounted for in the expected time

I think not knowing the laws and cultural rules makes you feel more insecure in a foreign country.

That's what I experienced while visiting the US, but I assume it feels the same the other way around for an American in France.

I agree.

In addition, food quality is miles ahead

I'm French and I'm curious as to how you moved and got a job in SD ? Thanks

53k is considered a high salary in France, at least if you're younger than 40 with no big responsibilities.

It was supposed to be a temporary state but no politician wants to be responsible of an attack if they shut it off...

I don't live in Paris but overall this doesn't change daily life by much. You basically only see a couple police officers in front of police stations and a couple guards in front of universities.

I think a good, free, open and multi-platform product that can help. However, I recently tried it again (after a couple years) for a professional project, and it's nowhere near Photoshop in terms of usability. I was expecting the software to have improved, hearing so many great things about it, but I was very disappointed...