Yeah, thats what I encountered. It wasn't healthy. It was competing against others that have much greater selective pressures to excel. You can see it on Blind

Yeah, thats what I encountered. It wasn't healthy. It was competing against others that have much greater selective pressures to excel. You can see it on Blind how people from China and India talk about practicing and solving hundreds of leetcode questions to get better, and I'm just casually able to work anywhere at any time and won't be uprooted if I fail. It takes me 45 minutes to solve one problem, and if I don't really understand the concept then it takes me hours to brush up on that concept. I don't have time for that, and the "average good enough" scores in interviews are getting finer and finer. Finance is easier and pays more. Any of us here could take the test for a FINRA license in a single week. And then use our coding skills and capital to automate most of that.