From my personal experience, a company wants a "yes man", someone who will do as they command. From their perspective, if you can't pass (or refuse!) the coding challenge, you're already in the red flag zone. That's just how it is.
The funny thing is that a single fairly large personal project will develop your engineering skills 42 times that of the hundred something leetcode problems you solved for your FAANG interviews.
One teaches deep long term critical thinking. The other short term critical thinking. You won't see any small short sighted systems out in the real world.
The funny thing is that a single fairly large personal project will develop your engineering skills 42 times that of the hundred something leetcode problems you solved for your FAANG interviews.
One teaches deep long term critical thinking. The other short term critical thinking. You won't see any small short sighted systems out in the real world.