I've dropped the compulsion to make everybody like me a long time ago. Actually, this is by design. See, the best outcome is when people who would not be able

I've dropped the compulsion to make everybody like me a long time ago. Actually, this is by design. See, the best outcome is when people who would not be able to work together productively find it before signing the contract. You may not see it this way, but I make a favour to every single interviewee like you by not wasting your time (or mine) on a fruitless endeavour. You don't like doing leetcode? I am completely fine about it. We live in a free world and fortunately for you there is no shortage of places that hire people who SAY they can program. I just want to warn you. Your coworkers will also be the ones that passed similar sieve. Your future boss might be one of them. I have worked for one or two places which do not check for candidates ability to program and these tend to be miserable places. Not saying all of them, but still. My first boss was a "Senior Dev" who literally did not know how to write a loop, and that was over 20 years ago. Since then I refused working for couple of places based on their lacking hiring process and I have never regretted my decision. I am not ashamed of my programming skills and I am happy to prove to any reasonable interviewer on demand and comfortable in knowing that I will be working with other people who can do the same.