The barrier to get an internship is generally lower than getting a FT position. The author of Brew got famously asked by Google to reverse a binary tree and fai

The barrier to get an internship is generally lower than getting a FT position. The author of Brew got famously asked by Google to reverse a binary tree and failed the interview. The actual answer to avoid leetcoding is to go through the frontend engineer route in the companies which don't leetcode frontend engineers. From my experience everyone else ask for leetcoding. Good for you found a preferential way in but from what I've seen process generally trumps on bringing friends in.