[SamReidHughes]

Not doubtful at all. You can expect a positive correlation between being an good driver and a good software engineer. Definitely some random person with the CS fundamentals, coding fluency, and creative problem solving ability to be good at competitive programming is more likely to be good at software engineering than some random developer. You're basically saying, high intelligence isn't correlated with being a strong software engineer. Or maybe you think people doing competitive programming are damaged. This is nuts.

[thr0waway1239]

>> Or maybe you think people doing competitive programming are damaged. This is nuts.

I don't see how that is implied by GP's comment. It is one thing to read between the lines, but now you are reading between the characters.

[anon263626]

Yup. More mental "shortcuts" that seek magic "signals" to avoid both evidence and pragmatic interviewing effort testing both business problem-solving critical thinking and cultural fit. There are no shortcuts. Furthermore, "competitive" programming has little to do with the real world, and it's more about showing off and ego inflation.

[boltzmannbrain]

Reading between the lines: Problems that are typical of software engineering interviews and in competitive programming are poor evaluation of one's capabilities as a professional software engineer.