Title: Given the removal of the need to move to a High-COL area to work for a FAANG-type or FAANG-aspiring company with the rise in intermediate-to-senior level remote work opportunities for some of them, I feel that it might be possible to FIRE for more of us.<p>I&#x27;ve always been fortunate enough to avoid grinding LeetCode, telling myself I don&#x27;t want to jump through those hoops (rotating a red-black tree on a whiteboard) and that I was happy enough at non-FAANG companies. I know that at almost all of these companies they will ask you LC medium (or even LC hard) questions. However, the death of a close friend has made me reevaluate whether I want to work until 65. Maybe retiring early or at least having the option to not work full time makes sense. I do know that you can still live a good life before you are retired, and I am guilty of &quot;Groundhog Day&quot; living like some of us are.<p>If you were not hired into FAANG out of college and were rusty on algorithms and data structures, what advice would you like to share on getting hired into FAANG? What did you have to do to prepare successfully for the interviews? How many &quot;practice&quot; interviews did you do? How much time did you spend every week? How did you maintain discipline during the grind Did you have a coach or some coach-type program? What books or courses would you recommend? Thanks for any input. Happy new year!
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