Ill put my ego first(from personal experience) and sorry if this isn’t an “ideal” answer you were looking for. If you say you were making an impact and all? Well,  wait for the right opportunity, And decline them. Im sure someone here will probably provide a better (and more thought provoking lengthy answer) , but been in this situation once, no way am i gonna go back. Theres a thin line of difference between a laid off employee and a boomerang employee. Good luck. 

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Please note I haven’t mentioned about behavior/system design, as i am too early in my prep. Sorry for not seeing that

What has helped me is to put simply is have a routine, that's it. I know this isnt something you asked, but to be honest it boils down to this. Sure, personal life differs and not all can have this “luxury” per se. I will share what I have been doing since start of this year. Not getting any calls, neither have any scheduled. But, to be honest I am not focusing on them as I am still preparing; I would like to focus on the grind before committing to interviews.

Now, since that is addressed here is what I do on a weekdays:

- I work from 9-5. Gym 3 days/week from 530pm-730pm.
- Come home, wrap up dinner around 9-930.
- I am following neetcode and hence i just get right into it. But, to “warmup” I read through what I solved the previous day, if it was something i couldn’t come up with a solution, try to resolve it.
- After spending around 15-30min I start my pomodoro timer (1 hr focus/10min break), and get down to business. I do this till i just can’t/dont want to solve anymore. This usually happens when i am frustrated (most of the times) since i am not able to see through a pattern (think prefix sum, or bitmasks i hate it), i make a note (have an excel sheet) on what are my weak areas to target when i am done with neetcode’s pattern list.
- Then I go back to the problems I have solved for that day as a mini revision.
- Then I go to sleep.

Come weekend, you guessed it, do all of that but try to spend more time think 4+ hours (following my pomodoro). And, this repeats. I try not to mix my work times with preparation times, yes i know its very difficult, some are early birds, but i realized i am a night owl 🤷‍♂️.

Tl;dr time: It's ok if you solve 1 easy, its ok if you dont solve anything: Point is, when i come home either tired or amped up, I bloody make sure my motivation doesn't die to open the laptop and take that extra mile to open leetcode, i at the very least read a blog post of folks who “made it”, that keeps me going.

Hope this helps. Sorry if I went on a tangent in answering your query. Happy to chat/answer more.

I know i am late to answer this question. But, I too face this, fortunately not sure if you are aware of this, when a recruiter reaches out to me for a job, Linkedin has a feature in their messages which is you can select a “default” accept/reject message or auto decline their message without a formal note, it really helps me to not even type out anything just select one button and the rest is history. Maybe check that out if haven’t yet! 

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