Ask HN: How many developers at your company are highrated competitive programmers

0. No one cares about useless tests. Just spend your time doing what you love and building cool stuff.

Hmm. 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?

I 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.

I've heard that MemSQL and imo.im have a lot of rated competition programmers (and in fact target that segment of developers).