Competitive Programming is such an asinine concept.
It’s like competitive knitting, or competitive architecture.
This focus on the inane is what has really damaged this industries perception in engineering IMO.
It’s like competitive knitting, or competitive architecture.
This focus on the inane is what has really damaged this industries perception in engineering IMO.
Why would influence perception in any way being an unrelated very niche hobby?
The actual day to day of the industry, stays unnafected.
or you can look at other form of competitive programming, like heuristic contest, that would teach you how to use baseline, run tests, adapt strategies based on given data
no one consider a time limited contest (hours to maybe days) same as engineering job, they do this for the fun of it
What is concerning, however, is when the competitors of these sports decide that their sport should become a filter for things adjacent to said sport.
The rationale is usually something like: "Competitive programming might not be a robust predictor for job performance, but most competitive programmers I know are also good developers, thus we must use competitive programming as a qualifying factor for hiring new developers." and weight it heavily compared to other signals.
Nothing is wrong with that. Think of it as intellectual exercise. Fair enough, real world software development involves other factors.