I have my initial phone screen coming up in the next few weeks.

I have 4 YOE as a senior front end dev. I've succesfully led and delivered multiple projects to production and taken great pride in mentoring new interns and grads.

But I SUCK at algorithms! Particualry the medium and hard ones that require dynamic programming etc.

I just find it very troubling that Facebook and other top tier companies aren't interested in your knowledge of React, GraphQL & *insert widely used tech here*. You know, the stuff I imagine their developers are expected to use on a daily basis?

I've had awesome interviews in the past where you'll be tasked with writing a react component that fetches data and renders it using the correct processes and methods.

In my entire career, I've never seen a doubly linked list or a bi-directional graph, but I consider myslef an innovator, team player and a dev who gets stuff done properly, but it is depressing me thinking I'll never be able to demonstrate my ability if I fail to solve a contrived medium/hard LC problem under pressue in 20 mins.

I'm trying my best to learn the core patterns and data structures. Maybe im just being a b**** and need to get on with it.