The difference is that if you fail medicine, it’s ok (it’s hard). But if you fail to get a job because of the stupid “async queue” author’s problem, well, that’s depressing.
I'm not so sure. Failing your residency means your medical career is basically done, and you have to basically start a new career from scratch in your late 20s. Chances are you'll have debt from not just undergrad but also med school.
By comparison, failing a leetcode interview means you've got to find a new company to interview with.
failing medicine is depressing in the original sense of giving personal depression, failing stupid leetcode and not getting job is depressing in the more modern sense of the world is stupid and not well-organized.
