> I don't understand how anyone can think that 7 or more years of med school and grueling residency is somehow easier than studying Leetcode for a few weeks or months.
It's obviously easier if done only once.
But doctors go through education & residency once and then start their careers.
Software engineers need to repeat this every job change for no reason.
I don't understand how anyone can think that 7 or more years of med school and grueling residency is somehow easier than studying Leetcode for a few weeks or months.
Med school has a very different selection bias than FAANG interviews. No one seriously attempts to attend medical school unless they've committed to 7 years of grueling training. A FAANG interview, on the other hand, is barely a blip on the radar over the course of an engineering career. A lot of people apply to FAANG jobs just to try their chances at the application process. Not so for medical school.