Comment by idontwantthis

> I'm not a good enough software engineer to do complex stuff (think: very high load, distributed, etc) - so I can't pass interviews to all the FAANG move-fast-high-load-distributed-world-changing-do-our-7-round-dfs-bfs-interview style companies.

You should challenge this opinion of yourself. I thought this too until I actually tried and found out stuff isn't that hard (at least so far). Specifically I know dfs bfs stuff isn't that hard because I have learned that. If you are competent at your job then you should be able to learn this. It just takes repetition. Even though you are busy if you can spend 30 minutes per day studying, you will learn it without it even feeling like a challenge.