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The title of the post understates the claim in the link, which is that, "being good at programming competitions correlates negatively with being good on the job
by williamsmj 9y ago
The title of the post understates the claim in the link, which is that, "being good at programming competitions correlates negatively with being good on the job".
- williamsmj 9y agoI tweeted this link this morning (apparently the first time it's been posted to Twitter, so perhaps how it ended up here on HN). I did so in response to the CTO of Kaggle tweeting "Super confused why we still use resumes. Get 100x the signal from domain profiles (GitHub, StackOverflow, Kaggle, etc.) & real work samples", which ... where to start [https://twitter.com/benhamner/status/883137638084956160 https://twitter.com/benhamner/status/883137638084956160].
- rquant 9y agono the statement is ""being good at programming competitions correlates negatively with being good on the job, conditional on passing Google interviews" which is completely different statement. "being good at programming competitions" hugely positively correlated with "begin good on the programming job" unconditionally
- sbierwagen 9y agoDo you have... any kind of evidence to support that claim?
- Klockan 9y agoThe overwhelming majority of people who can't code would fail horribly both at jobs and competitions, this effect will drown out everything else no matter how the distribution looks for the few percent who can code.