Since you have to ask, your resentment against tech employers is unconscious. You resent being a wage slave being forced to do this. What can you as an indivi

Since you have to ask, your resentment against tech employers is unconscious. You resent being a wage slave being forced to do this. What can you as an individual do about this? As you already know the answer is nothing. Which further demotivates you. The answer is to separate the concerns. With regards to demotivation, resentment etc. - read some Noam Chomsky or Karl Marx or Bernie Sanders. Go to a few local Denocratic Socialists of America meetings and talk to the one or two people there who are not just the usual weirdos who show up at political events. If you want to hit back at companies forcing you to do this, and be able to stand proud and not be a wage slave slug doing unpaid grinding of Leetcode without a paycheck, this is the only way to hit back, if only in a small way. These things change collectively, not individually. You might feel better. Then - suck it up and start grinding Leetcode. Think about how it's cool you just learned to implement Dijkstra's flag algorithm and the like.