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Winning at programming competitions is a negative factor for being good on the job
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A one-minute clip of Peter Norvig saying that Google found programming contest success correlates negatively or poorly with job performance. The description links to a blog post discussing it.
Used as the go-to citation in LeetCode and hiring debates that competitive programming skill is not a good signal for hiring.
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