I currently have 1 year experience as a data scientist working in a small startup, I want to make a switch from this company to a higher paying company not necessarily FAANG, I want to make a move in 6 months, my college is BTech from a Tier 3 college. I wanted to know what to focus on cause I hear that typically Data Science and MLE interviews are relatively easier than SDE roles.

So should I focus on end to end projects and deploy it on some cloud. Solve Leetcode questions, how much to solve and in what all categories?

What should I focus on?