Title: I have 15+ years of software engineering experience. As an IC in real world scenarios on average I tend to outperform many of my peers in delivering features, both in dev velocity and the quality of code.<p>But. My mind is quite slow in the initial phase of analyzing the problem, gathering the requirements, figuring out the best solution, trials and errors edge cases etc.<p>This feature failed few faang interviews for me already.<p>It looks impossible to me to deliver a quality (or even just working correctly) code for rather complex puzzle in 40 minutes.<p>Even if it’s the puzzle I’ve already solved on leetcode. I have hard time memorizing stuff, it’s much easier for me to rebuild solution from scratch, once I understand the core idea. But it takes time.<p>So how do I get to faang or other company with comparable benefits if their all interviews seem to be heavily biased towards  quick, rather than deep thinkers?
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