As if for the same crop of... for want of a better term... "kids" who had the whole stack-ranking and "human beings are infinitely measurable and weighable" ethos so relentlessly and successfully drilled into them from pre-K up through graduate school -- there's not even a question of jacking up and scaling out that same system out into the professional working sphere. It's just the way universe works.

And so of course getting a leg up and "making it" means cramming one's brains out for however many months as necessary in order to graze whatever "bar" they set because... that's just what learning is, right?