My experience is that generally you can't bypass leetcode interviews via networking. At most, you might be allowed to skip the phone screen. Or you might be gi

My experience is that generally you can't bypass leetcode interviews via networking. At most, you might be allowed to skip the phone screen. Or you might be given slightly more leeway in getting the solution. There are exceptions of course. One close friend/ex-colleague has an uncanny ability to network himself into a coding job at various NYC hedge funds. These being hedge funds, they all pay at least above average (we're not talking about Citadel or Jane Street here), but the downside is that he has to be very unpicky about what the role exactly entails. So this can lead him to very unsexy jobs like shuffling XML feed files back and forth or doing MS Access/Excel VBA stuff, etc. But he can snap his fingers, make a few phone calls to executives and managers he knows at multiple mid tier hedge funds, and start working in a matter of days.