So apparently getting rejected for your dev skills is totally fine and you just shrug it off like a mature professional. But DARE reject someone for their data structures and algorithms knowledge? NUCLEAR MELTDOWN ENGAGED. 🚨 The double standard is absolutely *chef's kiss* here. You can tell a developer their code is garbage, their framework choice is questionable, and their tabs-vs-spaces preference is wrong, and they'll just nod politely. But the SECOND you mention they couldn't reverse a binary tree on a whiteboard, suddenly it's a personal attack on their entire existence and they'll write a 47-part Medium article about how LeetCode is destroying the tech industry. Because nothing says "I'm emotionally stable" quite like having a complete existential crisis over failing to implement a red-black tree in 45 minutes while someone watches you sweat.