I suggest sticking with it. If you do enjoy development day to day, and can get your assignments done, those are the actual skills you need. Interviewing is a

I suggest sticking with it. If you do enjoy development day to day, and can get your assignments done, those are the actual skills you need. Interviewing is another game entirely, and it sounds like you've had a lot of unfortunate interviews that were more about the interviewer stroking their own ego than finding competent programmers who can do the work. There are jobs that don't have that kind of crazy running the interviews. Spend a few hours brushing up on Fermi approximation and mapping problems to known algorithms / data structures / tools, since they're useful skills anyway and will help your interviewing technique. Apply to lots of places, do lots of interviews, try to answer the questions as best you can, and don't worry about it when you hit interviews where they ask nothing relevant to your day-to-day work. Good luck.