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Let me start with a confession: I once wrote a Python script that auto-submitted Leetcode solutions every 12 hours to boost my profile’s "streak." Why? Because during campus placements, an HR manager from a well-known IT services company told me,  "We don’t care if you’ve built projects. If you can’t solve two medium-difficulty problems in 30 minutes, we’ll take the candidate who can." This isn’t an outlier-it’s the reality for 80% of India’s engineering graduates. Let’s dissect why this system is failing everyone and how you can survive it without losing your sanity. The Leetcode Industrial Complex: How We Got Here Most tier 2-3 companies use coding tests as a  filter , not an assessment. Here’s why: 1.        Lazy Hiring Practices : It’s cheaper to auto-reject 1,000 candidates via a HackerRank test than to pay HR teams to review portfolios. 2.       Grade Inflation Paranoia : With 1.5 million engineers graduating yearly,...

  So you want to be rich. Welcome to the club – current membership: everyone with a pulse and an Instagram account. And in your quest for wealth, you've probably been bombarded with ads from some guy in a rented Lamborghini telling you that "entrepreneurship is the only path to true financial freedom." Let me save you a few years and potentially your life savings: if getting rich is your primary goal, entrepreneurship might be the most idiotic path you could choose. That statement probably just made half of you close this tab in disgust while the other half leaned in closer. Good. Let's talk to the people still reading, the ones who value uncomfortable truths over comfortable fantasies. I've spent years watching friends launch startups, build small businesses, and chase entrepreneurial dreams. Some succeeded wildly. Many more failed spectacularly. And through it all, I've noticed a strange paradox: those who became entrepreneurs specifically to get rich almost...