How to find a new job if I'm bad at leetcode style interview questions?

Question

I've been a software engineer for a decade now, with nearly all of that time at VMware where I've been consistently recognized by my peers, tech leads, and managers as an engineer that writes good clean code (as well as some other positive attributes, but no companies appear interested in anything beyond coding skills when it comes to hiring). Yet despite writing (and reviewing) countless lines of actual production code for a very non-trivial product I'm unable to solve the types of problems I encounter in interviews.Of course I've tried practicing on leetcode and similar sites and watching youtube videos of problems I've particularly struggled with but nothing seems to help. Over the last couple years I've bombed interviews at Google, Microsoft, Facebook, and Amazon (the first two I made it to the onsites, the last two I didn't even get that far). Anyone have suggestions beyond "just practice more" or "watch more vids"?

kyting · Accepted Answer

Unfortunately, there is no shortcut to challenge FANG types of companies -- you have to practice at least 200 leetcode problems, and able to solve two medium level problems in 45 mins. So practice more and efficiently is the key to success.

gofreddygo · Answer

Pick 5 important tags from leetcode's problem set. Pick 10 problems each tag.
In a physical book, make a list of those 10 problems on 5 separate pages.
Start solving them one on each page.
Detach as much as possible from work. Pick tasks that aren't sinkholes for your time.
By the end of 50 probs, you will know better about your strategy and have better ideas on how to take it from there

a3n · Answer

Form a team, create a product, get aqhired.

Bjartr · Answer

Maybe hire a teacher for some 1x1 lessons?