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A disproportionate amount of this company's employees are ICPC winners/finalists. I am getting Imposter Syndrome just by looking at that page. oof.
by hcnews 8y ago
A disproportionate amount of this company's employees are ICPC winners/finalists. I am getting Imposter Syndrome just by looking at that page. oof.
- baoha 8y agoRussia and China have a huge tradition in preparing and participating in those competitions, while in US, I found it's more like of a hobby, so I'm not surprised given both founders are Russians.
- SkidanovAlex 8y agoWhile P(Russian|ICPC Winner) is high, P(ICPC Winner|Russian) is still pretty low :) Also, Illia is Ukrainian, not Russian, but it's nitpicking. ICPC is a great way to start your career if you were unfortunate enough to get born in a noname city somewhere in ex-Soviet Union, thus people are pretty motivated to do well. In US by the time you graduate you already have few internships in your resume, and are pretty figured career wise, so naturally the benefits of ICPC are less attractive.
- baoha 8y agoDon't get me wrong, I have great respect for people with high prizes in ICPC, which is way more difficult than IOI in high school. I was just stating the fact.
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- C1sc0cat 8y agoNot really applicable in the real world and to many of that sort of person would be a huge read flag for me. A bit like the one company I interviewed at that had some odd stuff on their site about your reading level. It never came up in interview but I would have loved to have said of course I new all those words drum roll at age ten doesn't every one :-)