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Ask HN: How many developers at your company are highrated competitive programmers
I am just interested in knowing that percentage of developers excel at competitive programming. Also interested in the reverse statistic which is about how well competitive programmers perform in a real programming scenario. At my company, I only know of two people who are "Yellow" rated on Topcoder.
- mrits 11y agoI can't say I have ever heard anyone bring up Topcoder in a professional environment. If you are interested in it, then by all means, compete. But don't think it's going to help you make any extra money in life.
- Avalaxy 11y ago0. No one cares about useless tests. Just spend your time doing what you love and building cool stuff.
- codeonfire 11y agoHmm. Interesting. Last time I asked for a job I had to do 5-6 useless tests. I was told experience and education didn't matter. What does matter besides politics?
- argonaut 11y agoI've heard that MemSQL and imo.im have a lot of rated competition programmers (and in fact target that segment of developers).