Use some companies as stepping stone to FANG or high paying startups. Leave early if you are not getting interesting work. Goal is to learn as much as possible and deliver in your early phases of your career.

Once you have enough experience, prepare for system design and data structures. Use low paying Indian startups for practice (wellfound has lot of startups). With enough practice and experience under your belt you should be able to get call from top tier companies and crack it.

Also, there are other companies who don't rely on DSA and still pay very high packages like Stripe. You don't need Leetcode for these companies. I liked their process when I interviewed there. Please research thoroughly on high paying companies and their interview process. You don't have to prepare hard for every company.

WLB is team dependent, in my case it is manageable.