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Humility
I know I just said you need to be confident in your abilities, and you do. You need to:
- Be confident in your ability to learn, communicate, solve problems, and build solutions
- Be humble about your current working set of knowledge
You're new to this, and that's okay! You don't know everything there is to know about programming, no one does. There's just too much to know, and your interviewers are aware of this.
Humble Folks Are Fun to Work With
Remember, a human is hiring you, and this human will have to work with you daily if they hire you. From a high level, they want 2 things:
- You can do the job well so they don't have to hold your hand
- You're enjoyable to work with so they don't dread coming to work
- Know-it-alls are no fun to work with. They're arrogant, they don't listen, and they're not open to new ideas
- Being humble communicates that you will be teachable and learn faster
- Being humble means you're more likely to be willing to adapt to how the team does things