Yes it is. I had to make this decision as to whether I want to work on my personal projects, explore interesting topics or grind leetcode. To actually work on g

Yes it is. I had to make this decision as to whether I want to work on my personal projects, explore interesting topics or grind leetcode. To actually work on good projects the first step is leetcode. I have a lot of interesting projects and I can talk a lot about OS kernels and bluetooth. To get to companies working on such interesting projects the gate will be leetcode type judges website. The questions they later ask are rudimentary and none of your effort on going deep into the such interesting topics matter.