I’ve been solving leetcode questions for a few months now. Primarily for fun because coding interviews aren’t really a thing in my country (salaries comparable

I’ve been solving leetcode questions for a few months now. Primarily for fun because coding interviews aren’t really a thing in my country (salaries comparable to the US aren’t either). It is a really interesting exercise and as you mentioned, there is a world of difference between knowing the basics and actually being able to solve those kind of problems on an interview level. It’s not uncommon for me to check the first test cases, submit my solution and then be screwed by the one edge case I did not think about. Doing all of this in a 20 minute interview seems insane to me. I occasionally check out commonly asked FAANG questions on Leetcode and how people actually solve these kinds of problems in such a short time while communicating with an interviewer is beyond me.