> My immediate thoughts, CodeForces (and competitive programming in general) is a poor proxy for performance on general software engineering task Yep. A genera

> My immediate thoughts, CodeForces (and competitive programming in general) is a poor proxy for performance on general software engineering task Yep. A general software engineering task has a lot of information encoded in it that is either already known to a human or is contextually understood by a human. A competitive programming task often has to provide all the context as it's not based off an existing product or codebase or technology or paradigm known to the user