> After about a month of consistently practicing problems each day (maybe 2–3 hours/day, more on weekends) I moved on to doing primarily Leetcode’s “Top Intervi

> After about a month of consistently practicing problems each day (maybe 2–3 hours/day, more on weekends) I moved on to doing primarily Leetcode’s “Top Interview Questions” I'm completely fine with interviewers expecting you to solve some problems in front of them and knowing basic algorithms + data structures, but if it's becoming standard to dedicate this much time to studying and applying for jobs something is really, really wrong. I think a day or two to refresh your knowledge you haven't used for a while and practice a few problems to get you warmed up is reasonable but when you're talking weeks of preparation then the interview is testing the wrong thing. I can't see in the article how much preparation was done but it sounds like months of work.