> What do they do after that? I know a few. They either started their own companies or have regular jobs. Performance in competitive programming doesn't neces

> What do they do after that? I know a few. They either started their own companies or have regular jobs. Performance in competitive programming doesn't necessarily translate to performance in software engineering, which is really a different discipline altogether. Chiefly it has much more to do with dealing with the human factor. To quote my distributed systems professor: Technical problems are mostly solvable. Most unsolvable problems are not technical.