> Cf. a similar effect in Google employees with programming competitions - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9324209 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=932

> Cf. a similar effect in Google employees with programming competitions - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9324209 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9324209 Interesting point. Competitive coding has virtually nothing to do with real world software engineering. But, since it's still coding, you could learn a lot of bad habits from doing it that might carry over into the real world. Better to get into <competitive hobby> instead.