[typon]

I don't hate you I pity you. Applied for Big N jobs last year, had to study leetcode for 1 month and I hated my life. I was legit depressed. I was already so busy at work and coming home to do leetcode just killed all motivation and happiness in my life. Did well enough to get to on site interviews but didn't get a full time offer from any of them. Such is life :(

[dominotw]

I used to hate leetcode with passion because i associated it with being a failure in career.

I started leetcoding just for enjoyment and not for landing a FAANG job, when i had no interviews coming up. I started enjoying it a little bit and now i do it for "fun" and don't have an anatagonist realationship to it.

Like someone said, once you overcome something you have keep overcoming it, so you can never be successful if your strategy is overcoming.

[gonehome]

It feels like studying for the SAT for me (something I also struggled really investing in). At least it’s more valuable than the SAT in the skills you develop.

It can be really hard to motivate yourself to jump through hoops.