> "If I was a doctor and wanted to work at some other company, would I need to study the MCAT every year in order to pass a screening interview based on one possible question?"
If you were a doctor, you would have gone through 4-5 years of supervised residency after medical school (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Residency_(medicine)) to guarantee some minimum level of competency before becoming a practitioner. Pay is notoriously poor and the hours are extremely long.
Programmers have it exceedingly good and the only reason for that is that software is still in its growth phase. I doubt we'll all be still riding the gravy train in another 25-50 years.
Yes but once you get through your residency your expected earnings go up quite a bit and you don’t go back to square one. If someone had told me that I’d still need to prep for leetcode interviews at age 55 I’d have chosen the MD path given a choice, but I’m also old enough to remember the days when you could get a decent coding job based mainly on your experience so from my perspective things have in general gotten demonstrably worse in terms of process for anything other than a lottery-ticket FAANG position.
If you were a doctor, you would have gone through 4-5 years of supervised residency after medical school (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Residency_(medicine)) to guarantee some minimum level of competency before becoming a practitioner. Pay is notoriously poor and the hours are extremely long.
Programmers have it exceedingly good and the only reason for that is that software is still in its growth phase. I doubt we'll all be still riding the gravy train in another 25-50 years.