[JohnFen]

> I haven't left simply due to one issue: I refuse to do leetcode interviews.

If it helps any to know this, I get compensated at least as well as Microsoft (or equivalent) companies provide and have never had to do a single leetcode interview. I've never even been asked.

As near as I can tell, leetcode is used by a certain subset of the industry. But the industry as a whole is much larger than those companies.

[_huayra_]

Is there a particular subset of the industry you specialize in? Curious where the leetcode-lite/free areas might be (unfortunately I'm not in one of them).