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A lot of those people in India and China commit suicide, have mental breakdowns, or end up living generally unsatisfying lives. Their system is entirely unenviable.

There's a difference between 'entitlement' and recognizing that a system is flawed such that it doesn't necessarily select for the best candidates, only those who are willing to play the game hardest, which doesn't necessarily correlate with the best on the job performance.

The zero sum burnout games many Chinese and Indian students play are also a good example of such a system, and I think it's a positive feature of American culture that it's objected to.

OP here.

I’m in India. People spend 2-3 years grinding leetcode questions too. So you can imagine how difficult the tests have become over the past few years and how pointless this whole test is.

If the grinding is not going to translate into a business advantage, then it is pointless.