The title of the post understates the claim in the link, which is that, "being good at programming competitions correlates negatively with being good on the job".
I tweeted this link this morning (apparently the first time it's been posted to Twitter, so perhaps how it ended up here on HN).
I did so in response to the CTO of Kaggle tweeting "Super confused why we still use resumes. Get 100x the signal from domain profiles (GitHub, StackOverflow, Kaggle, etc.) & real work samples", which ... where to start [https://twitter.com/benhamner/status/883137638084956160].
no the statement is ""being good at programming competitions correlates negatively with being good on the job, conditional on passing Google interviews" which is completely different statement.
"being good at programming competitions" hugely positively correlated with "begin good on the programming job" unconditionally
The overwhelming majority of people who can't code would fail horribly both at jobs and competitions, this effect will drown out everything else no matter how the distribution looks for the few percent who can code.
