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- that means you have to get good at Leetcode, sorry. You can argue it's an unfair or useless or unnecessary in the age of coding agents (you'd be wrong on all points), but it doesn't matter. Great companies test for this or something like it. So let go of your fear/resentment, get your chin up, and just do the thing - you don't have to grind through a thousand problems. You just have to (a) know the basic DS&A stuff and (b) get good at programming tactics - for tactics I'm not aware of a good focused resource, I should write one maybe. Basically be careful, be thoughtful, don't get flustered, watch off by 1 errors, be consistent about open and closed intervals, learn to treat errors as completely normal part of the process, learn to debug, etc. - back in my day we did it with @StevenSkiena's competitive programming class (last I checked videos were still online). Leetcode is better but Skiena's class is charmingly retro and you can take it from my cold dead hands - you'll need to cont