u/michaelnovati replied ·
Hi, you're definitely a little wide reaching there and definitely should focus, assuming this is your first job.
You said you want to be a frontend dev so I'll focus on that starting point.
1. For frontend roles, Facebook, Google, really FAANG companies will still ask DS&A questions. Sometimes on the medium side rather than the hard, but still some DS&A. If you are not targeting FAANG there are some top tier companies that have frontend roles that don't do DS&A, like Atlassian, so it depends on your goals. I would highly recommend avoiding the 'memorize leetcode' strategy and you should lean towards the fundamental techniques and problem solving PROCESS for hard DS&A problems, rather than having a solution to a hard problem on leetcode accepted and celebrating.
2. Being good at IMPLEMENTING FIGMA MOCKS will be helpful for frontend roles. That's a reasonable challenge you might get: 'here's a mock, implement it'. You probably won't be asked to MAKE Figma mocks. If you want to be a Designer, 100%. If you want to be a UX prototypes (a fairly rare role), 75%.
3. The career progression of frontend engineers has you building abstract components and frameworks that other frontend engineers and full stack engineers are using to easily build robust code of their own, and have consistent design patterns across the product. Fanciness is less important than consistency and clean APIs here.
I'm timeboxing my reply here but that's my opinion to get started!