Well, that’s a fine ideal and I agree with you. But let’s not pretend that with your ideal you aren’t leaving money on the table. I can afford to leave that m

Well, that’s a fine ideal and I agree with you. But let’s not pretend that with your ideal you aren’t leaving money on the table. I can afford to leave that money on the table at 51, grown kids, downsized to a condo in central Florida with just me and my wife. But in my case, it’s not even a trade off between not grinding leetcode and not getting (back) into BigTech. It’s just that I refuse to ever work in an office again. The “goal” is to make a lot of money in cash + RSUs (public BigTech), if I were younger I would definitely do it and I encourage all new grads to do whatever it takes to get into a high paying tech company and then give them advice on how to play the game once they are there.