> many of my peers have resorted to streamlining for whiteboard interviews, and unsurprisingly, they end up with well-paying jobs I switched into programming a

> many of my peers have resorted to streamlining for whiteboard interviews, and unsurprisingly, they end up with well-paying jobs I switched into programming and am low paid, and am doing this right now for interviews. Practicing for whiteboard interviews, or coding tests (real time online and in person). I re-read the language docs and then did (so far) 20 or so self-timed programming tests. Most of them I did in 5-30 minutes, 1 or 2 I got stuck on and subsequently reviewed. After finishing reading the language docs I will read though the platform docs, and may do some quizzes on that as well. As well as whiteboard high level class creation tests (HAS-A, IS-A). The tests have a lot of array stuff, String manipulation, using long instead of int, casting from one type to another, doing a lot of stuff with maps and sorting maps by value. It also uses things then can be done quickly and compactly in streams. I do these things once in a while, but now have it memorized and down cold. Hopefully this all leads to the latter result you mentioned.