> But then - why do anything more than the bare minimum at your job to get by while devoting the rest of your time (including any downtime during your job's wor

> But then - why do anything more than the bare minimum at your job to get by while devoting the rest of your time (including any downtime during your job's working hours) to study leetcode for interviews instead? At least until you get into an "endgame company" - FAANG or otherwise, where you feel comfortable staying a while. That sounds pretty healthy to me. If other companies want you to do work instead of leetcode, they should pay competitively.