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I am not in a hiring position but Mr. Peter Norvig says that being good at programming competitions correlates negatively with being good on the job at Google.
by appleskin 11y ago
I am not in a hiring position but Mr. Peter Norvig says that being good at programming competitions correlates negatively with being good on the job at Google.
http://www.catonmat.net/blog/programming-competitions-work-performance/ http://www.catonmat.net/blog/programming-competitions-work-p...
- jaruche 11y agoVery interesting! And also a great talk. But I understood from it is that once you pass the Google hiring bar only then this inverse correlation happens. What about to evaluate some candidate from the street?