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> I can't solve the "easy" problems on LeetCode and my score for the AngelList Fullstack assessment [1] was 18/30.

You say this as if both are equally bad - I just ran through it at ended up with 18/30 myself - but they list that as being in the 80/90th percentile! Or in their words: "You performed better than 80%-90% of 40,200+ candidates who took the same quiz."

AFAI can tell time doesn't enter into the evaluation, (ed: I did fairly rush through in 19 minutes - don't think it matters for scoring).

At any rate, I think you're conflating two things that people often conflate: suitability to get a job as a Software Developer/Software Architect - and Computer Science. If you want to do algorithmic research, you will need a good handle on CS - but for many development jobs a deep CS foundation is only a bonus, not a requirement.

Get more CS if you want to do research, get more programming experience if you want to work in this industry.

FWIW I know many great SWEs that have less of a CS background than what you already have.

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Did that quiz too now. Not having any knowledge of Javascript or SQL I still got a 18/30. Fishy that they won't let you look at what you got wrong/right.