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Yes, those are the only two options. I'd rather spend time with my kids than grind for 4 hours a day to get ghosted after the 5th round of interview.

If you spend your free time with kids you are outlier. Average adult in US watches 3 hours/day of TV (stats which frankly amazed me) which if spend more productiveky is more than enough to grind for interview

You were on to something with the GP's unprovable assertion.

Then you provided your own false dichotomy and the argument went all wrong.

Why are the two choices LC or TV? What about those who have a family, hobbies, etc?

The average American spends 3-4 hours per day on TV or Internet entertainment.

Sooo... its not much of a leap.

>I imagine the people grinding LC are harder working/more innovative than people who watched TV instead.

I suspect the original author of the article that spawned this comment thread prepared for the interview somewhat rather than watching TV instead - and still got sickened of the LT style interview.