So if you measure hiring candidates by their performance in programming competitions, everyone will manage their own skills towards doing better in competitions.
Yes but not just that. I think the bigger trend is that training oneself to excel at those types of problems meant (in addition to other things) one thing about you back then (that you were really into programming). Now that same behavior likely means that you want to get a nice job at one of the big tech companies, as a result of them publically selecting for that. These are fuzzy indicators to begin with, but they're definitely different fuzz.
> I think the bigger trend is that training oneself to excel at those types of problems meant (in addition to other things) one thing about you back then (that you were really into programming). Now that same behavior likely means that you want to get a nice job at one of the big tech companies, as a result of them publically selecting for that.
Thanks for the explanation! The idea being discussed didn't quite click for me until I read this
So if you measure hiring candidates by their performance in programming competitions, everyone will manage their own skills towards doing better in competitions.