I consider myself a pretty solid experience embedded developer(20+ experiences continously, starting from motorola then, mostly embedded linux) but I just could

I consider myself a pretty solid experience embedded developer(20+ experiences continously, starting from motorola then, mostly embedded linux) but I just could not pass the leetcode(or similar) tests from FAANG. I actually passed it once at Amazon but was told I'm lack of 'leadership', strangely some of my old team members(that I was a tech leader for the team, and I also founded a startup) got the offer at the same time, I was rejected by Amazon(I was later told somehow one of their interview just dislike me no matter what, even though the rest all wanted me). Since then I lost interests in preparing leetcode to try at other big ones. At smaller companies the compensation is not as good as I would like indeed.