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If you want to get good at something, practice that thing. It sounds like you're asking how to get good at coding interviews. So practice coding interview questions, not logic problems or competitive programming.…
> the group that's unwilling to put up with this is unqualified Companies that get a lot of applicants care more about false positives than false negatives. So they're fine not hiring a lot of qualified people, as long…
That has been done as well: https://codeforces.com/blog/entry/94353
This looks like a duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21892189. I answered there.
Here's a curated list of resources that a lot of people refer to: https://github.com/lnishan/awesome-competitive-programming But really, the way to get started is just to pick a site and start solving problems. If…
Most people who are doing competitive programming aren't good at the harder problems. For example, there are >2500 people listed on the TopCoder Top Ranked Algorithm Competitors page…
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10270014
Solving programming puzzles (or competitive programming) is a good basis for a deliberate practice plan. There are a lot of sites that provide puzzles of increasing difficulty. So you can work on problems slightly above…
Gayle Laakmann McDowell has a good Quora answer on the pros and cons of tech inteviews: http://www.quora.com/Why-are-programmers-in-the-software-eng... It's worth reading the whole thing, but here's a summary of why…
You need a certain amount of programming puzzle skill to get past the interview process at most tech companies. Competitive programming is a good way to practice this skill, but you don't have to do it at the exclusion…