Being good at programming competitions correlates negatively with being good on the job
Being good at programming competitions correlates negatively with being good on the job Last updated 6 weeks ago A few days ago I watched How Computers Learn talk by Peter Norvig. In this talk, Peter talked about how Google did machine learning and at one point he mentioned that at Google they also applied machine learning to hiring. He said that one thing that was surprising to him was that being a winner at programming contests was a negative factor for performing well on the job. Peter added that programming contest winners are used to cranking solutions out fast and that you performe...
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