[siliconc0w]

It's also frustrating for job mobility, as you need to move jobs (or at least have offers) to get employers to pay your market rate. But in order to get offers you need to basically start a part time job studying and interviewing. If you just interview with a company you want to work for with no competing offers you will get lowballed - you might also just get rejected because companies prefer high-false positive rates and most interviewers do not get any sort of continual training, feedback, calibration or standardization. It's also unfortunately standard that your compensation doesn't keep up with your market value as companies would rather hire-in than promote internally.

[b20000]

why spend 3 months full time studying when you can spend one month full time writing code for a product you can talk about in the interview?

[blovescoffee]

Many companies will reject you unless you an also pass the coding interview and that will generally require studying.

[b20000]

good luck to them