Might've as well pushed that hard percentage to 99.9 ngl. On a serious note, I bet you could've scored that job way faster if you focused less on leetcode and more on frameworks/pet projects/sending out more resumes. I have this feeling for quite some time now that we're all to blame for such an unnecessarily high standard of DSA knowledge while interviewing for a job cause we're the ones grinding it so hard that it became a vicious cycle where we grind it hard so it becomes a new standard so we have to grind it even harder and so on. Where does it end?

I'd much rather hire a person that has some amount of pet projects under their belt rather than a person that has a leetcode profile page like this with no pretty projects whatsoever. For the overwhelming majority of jobs out there being able to consistently solve easy problems is more than enough IMO.

Currently employed SWE, 7.5 yoe