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Discussion on: Competitive programming - is it really important?

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Max Ong Zong Bao • Edited

I disagree, It makes more sense to find another way through the third door.

Which nowadays you can work on your own personal branding, networking in the developer community or contribute to open source. Who will seek you out and offer you a high-quality job with a higher success rate with little to no competition.

Instead of going through the traditional route of applying and praying to get selected for an interview. Or passing the 1st level of competitive programming. I by no means are against technical challenge. But not something that anyone can game it through memorising of a reverse linked list.

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Yash Soni

I think you are getting it wrong. The aim of this article is to suggest explore this too. Of course all of what you said apart from CP is also important. But I never said that you have to do this and not that. It’s not exclusive. I’m writing blogs, building my side projects, learning algorithms, mentoring and contributing to the community all together. Let’s not fall in the trap of ranking all these. ✌🏻😄