Why do you want to jump through these ridiculous hoops to ruin your soul and mind by working a meaningless job under an incompetent manager in the first place?

Why do you want to jump through these ridiculous hoops to ruin your soul and mind by working a meaningless job under an incompetent manager in the first place? Your motivation lies in the answer if you have any. Money alone is not a motivating answer unfortunately, because our subconscious (soul if you will) truly does not care about money and wealth itself. But unfortunately again it is the only real sustainable source of our motivation. There are companies that do not do this shit or at least do very basic just to make sure you’re not a fake programmer. Why do you need motivation to learn leetcode simple? It’s mostly a very basic CS and something you should know already as a developer.