Hi Codeforces,

Based on my knowledge Odoo is hosting the IOPC (International Odoo Programming Contest) here, and most likely they are making hiring campaigns based on the ranks.

So I wanted to share my interviewing experience with them to give you insights about how dealing with their recruiters look like.

My interview experience with Odoo:

1.  I submitted the assessment.

2.  After a couple of weeks I got the chance to have a meeting with Tatiane Dussart (their recruiter) .

3.  After a couple of days Tatiane Dussart (their recruiter) sent me an email that after our call one of the developers reviewed my code in more detail and they have decided that my technical level isn't enough to move forward (as she said).

4.  after some days, she sent me an email that they mixed 2 tests internally (with another Ahmed) and she invited me to the last minute slot which is the day after this day at 1:30pm.

5.  I told her, Okay, I'm available. She scheduled the meeting and sent me an invitation.

6. The interviewer hasn't joined the meeting after waiting him for more than 30 minutes, and after sending a couple of emails to remind them.

7. I shared my feedback that I'm frustrated from the experience.

8. After a couple of days, she told me that she and the interviewer were sick and she didn't get the chance to inform me.

9. I shared with her that I shifted all my commitments this day, made a quick recap to prepare for the interview and waited the interviewer for more than 30 minutes, because I didn't want to miss the opportunity, so I'm very disappointed. and I asked her to schedule another interview

10. She replied that unexpected events can happen and they aren't robots and the flexibility and understanding are also qualities they value highly and based on my reaction I'm not good match for what they are looking for.

I usually prefer not to share experiences like this because I don’t want to spread negativity. In fact, I hadn’t planned to write about it at all—until I received her last reply. I’m still uncertain what, in their view, was inappropriate about my reaction beyond simply explaining what happened on my side, just as they explained they were unwell.

That said, this was the most disappointing interview process I’ve encountered in my career. It raised serious concerns about the company’s culture and how it values people’s time and effort.

Hi Codeforces, I'm working on building a social network platform for competitive programming, all its users should have the same interest in CP and there will be many exclusive features & contents the CPers can enjoy,

For example:

1- 1vs1 coding challenge matching (like chess game matching), the user can choose if this gonna be public so anyone can view the challenge, common friends only, or only some community members.

2- team matching, the user can choose if it is ICPC team, so the recommendations will recommend only the users who are in the same organization, or casual team matching.

3- Meeting request matching, user can request to have a meeting with someone to explain or teach him something, the algorithm will match his request to users and users can accept or not, these meetings can be paid too (like uber matching maybe).

4- during live rounds, users can see a live scoreboard for the users in their connection, or in some community.

5- in users newsfeed they can view tutorials for the problems they couldn't solve (WA/TLE/..etc verdict) during live rounds,

6- users can create communities and each community can have its own sub-community (for example: community_x has 3 sub-communites like newcomers, seniors, leaders).

7- rating change celebrations

• the motivation behind this is to make the competitive programming community more closer and more enjoyable
• Will you be interested to join or not? Please, feel free to share your feedback.

Hello guys I'm trying to be good at counting using combinatorics.

Can anyone recommend some tutorials/problems for me ... Thanks in advance and RAMADAN KAREEM

Hello every one ,wish you are doing great .... can any one explain how does this code doesn't got TLE ? https://mirror.codeforces.com/contest/246/submission/79394388

My idea is:

1-I'm storing all nodes in subtree of u at depth x using dfs time.

2- In every query first I check if I've encountered a query asking about the same nodes then I print answer as I save the ans of every query else then I iterate over all strings at depth d[i] + x at subtree of u and find number of distinct strings using set.

thanks in advance