>They don't. I've worked with some of the best competitive programmers in the world, they do think it is a positive and look for people with a strong competitiv

>They don't. I've worked with some of the best competitive programmers in the world, they do think it is a positive and look for people with a strong competitive programming background. That's fair I'm unable to find what I've been reading, probably some thread on spoj (edit I found this [1]) or this https://codeforces.com/blog/entry/17302 https://codeforces.com/blog/entry/17302 for now I only found this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4rykKLcduI&t=435s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4rykKLcduI&t=435s by https://codeforces.com/profile/Errichto https://codeforces.com/profile/Errichto _____________________ [1] - https://discuss.spoj.com/t/spoj-a-praca-i-zycie/26380 https://discuss.spoj.com/t/spoj-a-praca-i-zycie/26380 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPOJ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPOJ Title: SPOJ & work and life It's written in Polish, but as I see that was about kinda different thing >How were SPOJ and programming skills useful in the context of your studies? >Virtually not at all. I will say more - these skills were an obstacle in obtaining the title of engineer. ><rant about higher edu institution> >... >How useful are SPOJ and specific, classic algorithms at the programmer's work? >Wandering around the labor market, I got the impression that it was easier to become a programmer with a vague idea of algorithms and extensive experience in creating specific projects than being a master of all kinds of algorithms, but without experience in coding something bigger. So the point was kinda different than I remember _____________________