You're welcome! Yeah I'll be honest I think I have the resume game down OK but I'm clueless about cover letters. I like to believe that jobs only care about s

You're welcome! Yeah I'll be honest I think I have the resume game down OK but I'm clueless about cover letters. I like to believe that jobs only care about stated ability but I would also believe that if a recruiter had to pick to interview between someone without a degree but better-than-average stated ability and someone with a degree but average stated ability, they'd go with the degree-holder. I think especially right now with the higher demand for jobs they can be pickier too. Good luck with rewording, honestly I'd wager that writing a good 1 page resume is much harder than writing a 10 page essay. Being concise and precise is difficult - not to mention the fact that if you're like me you have to constantly avoid shooting yourself in the foot by not framing things as positively as you can (e.g. I'm definitely more prone to writing "I'm not so great with C++" as opposed to "I'm more adept with X/Y/Z, but I still have good proficiency in C++"). I do have this inkling that interviews are more and more rejecting the algs-style tech interview questions, which is good because those sorts of questions are largely irrelevant to day-to-day work (at least for a junior IME). I certainly don't think you need to nolife Codewars - and also that it's better in many ways to upskill - but I just wanted to check that you were prepared for it. It would be disheartening to hear that a good engineer got their foot in the door but was then kicked out because they couldn't conjure quickselect out of thin air (can you tell I'm still upset about a past interview?). And just like before from me, best of luck.