[bradlys]

> but, i disagree with the solution you suggest. the only solution is to refuse and instead of wasting 3 months training with no guarantees, build a product instead and sell it.

Because being a software engineer means running your own business… right.

Just like surgeons should start their own hospital before getting hired. Makes total sense…

[b20000]

surgeons are not dealing with this problem. they get their degree, go through some mandatory on the job training, then get hired. nobody ever asks them later on to do some "surgeon leetcode" to prove they can do their job.

[pedrosorio]

Hopefully:

- clearly incompetent surgeons never graduate

- any surgeon who can’t do the equivalent of basic “surgeon leetcode” would be painfully obvious to their colleagues on the job and would struggle to continue employment as a surgeon

[cloverich]

Getting that degree and the mandatory training is FAR more work than a few months of leet code grinding. The leet code thing really really sucks. But it is light years easier than and less tedious than the hoops you need to jump through to become a physician, let alone a surgeon. A more comparable comparison would be if literally every programming job required that you passed multiple algorithm tests, some of which took years to study for, before you could even apply.