• DerEineDa@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    What is this meme about? “Competition”, “Leaderboard”, “Waiting for the timer to hit 0:00”? I am so confused.

    • shebpamm@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      Competitive programming.

      Usually multiple algorithmic problems that are released to public at the same time and the fastest people to submit a correct solution get more points.

      A fun one I still like to participate in is advent of code, which is a yearly christmas themed one with two problems released a day during advent.

      If you want to seriously compete in competitive programming, you need to learn and memorize different problem types and the solutions to those. A bit like you start learning patterns in chess.

      For practicing, the CSES Problem Set is a gold mine for practice problems. Theres also a list of competitive programming books on the site.

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      It’s about how I applied to an associate engineer position, made it through 3 rounds of interviews, then got rejected only to find out they hired a senior engineer with over a decade of experience at AWS. /rant

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      1 year ago

      It’s about the feeling when people are a milion times more skilled in your field