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Worth having a multi month break at some point in your career where you spend most your time practicing and taking technical interviews. It makes you a better programmer and problem solver.

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Depending on your sense of worth, it would be a better idea to just take a few months off entirely, rather than just grinding to get back to it.

One of the virtues in having been terminated a bunch of tomes is that I've had much more time off than anyone else I know, and while I have no idea what to do next, I know I'd be sad without that time off.

There has to be something seriously wrong with the tech industry if engineers are rewarded for spending more than 1/6 of the year learning a skill that is generally regarded to be unrelated to actual job performance. It cannot be completely bad in itself, but there must be some better way of organizing engineering labor.

Thought the same way until I spent 3 months on leetcode and absorbing algorithm lectures. My programming skills and problem solving skills simply got a lot better for the long term.

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