"There are known programmers who are really good (USA Computing Olympiad)" So, maybe this will come as a shock, but "computing olympiad" success doesn't correl

"There are known programmers who are really good (USA Computing Olympiad)" So, maybe this will come as a shock, but "computing olympiad" success doesn't correlate with success as a professional programmer. There's so much more than raw intellectual horsepower to being a good team engineer that it can't be captured with any one test. Which is to say, the parent is right. Identifying good programmers is a hard problem. Harder than identifying people who do well at coding contests.