After failing 3 coding interviews, I realized the problem wasn't practice it was how I was practicing.

I spent 6 months grinding LeetCode before my first FAANG interview.

400+ problems solved. Every "Blind 75" problem is memorized. I felt ready.

Then the interviewer asked a sliding window variation I hadn't seen before. I froze. Drew a blank. Bombed the interview.

The problem wasn't that I hadn't practiced enough. The problem was that I had practiced incorrectly.