[jacquesm]

> Which would normally be a great CV badge to demonstrate your skills to prospective employers

Not many employers would know of the IOCCC.

[regularfry]

If you have the sort of brain that makes winning IOCCC entries, it is highly probable that a candidate employer who has not heard of it is not, in fact, prospective.

[bregma]

> Not many employers would know of the IOCCC.

Sure. But who wants to work flipping burgers, greeting shoppers, or doing web front-ends for the rest of their life?

[bidirectional]

Anyone interviewing an IOCCC winner probably has.

[f00zz]

can confirm

source: won the IOCCC