[lordnacho]

Take-homes there were a few of, nothing leetcode in the places I looked. Still gotta know your DS&A though, people will ask.

Remote also allows you to interview a lot, so if there's some hiring process that's not for you, no big deal.

[noleetcode]

I suppose I probably should at least just start some interviews and then decline at the point that they start leetcoding-proper (even if that's during the actual interview itself).

DS& (common) A isn't a problem at its core (as least as far as I am concerned - I'm comfortable that I am able to pick the right one given the scenario, describe why, etc.), but where it becomes a problem for me is when I'm inevitably asked to reproduce some esoteric (for example) binary tree or graph algorithm on the spot, in 30 minutes, with no errors.

[specialist]

I was once asked to write a (bayesian) spam filter, when neither my cv nor the job posting had any mention of spam or anything adjacent. Then the "bar raiser" mocked me.