In recent days, I have seen too many blogs about cheating. It's actually disheartening to see that the true spirit of CP is dying day by day. CP was considered a sport when I started, but now people have misinterpreted it as a shortcut for job opportunities.
The rank inflation these days is unbelievable; I see many newbies/pupils solving up to D/E, where the problem rating might be around 2000. One possible reason for this "sudden increase" might be the ongoing intern/placement seasons, where students have to showcase their fake ranks on their resumes.
In the recent EPIC(Div1+2) contest, I was ranked ~4300 after the contest, and after the plag check, I was moved to 3535. Wtf? ~800 cheaters in the top 4000 is actually a crazy reason.
I request everyone to stop cheating as it won't benefit you anywhere; it may help you in the short run, but ultimately, you'll be exposed among the genuine coders. Fake/higher CP rankings will get you in trouble during interviews and in the company as well.
For example, if you show that you are a higher expert, the interviewer might give you a harder problem, expecting you to solve it or at least come close to it. People who are not able to solve even B on their own, solving up to D/E during contests, will face problems. You may achieve higher ranks and ratings to showcase on your resume, but there is a high possibility that a genuine specialist might perform better than you.
And come on, what will you gain from this? Cheating will not only damage your reputation but will also hinder your own growth and learning. Ultimately, the knowledge and skills you acquire genuinely will truly benefit you in your career. Cheating might offer temporary gains, but it's the true understanding and problem-solving abilities that will set you apart and ensure long-term success.
Thanks for reading!
the logical reasoning will totally work
For anyone cheating in Competitive Programming for the sole purpose of getting a "good" job, Trust me, it won't help. Interviewers are smart enough to give you problems that will be challenging to you, based off your rating. This means that a real rating of 1200 is better than a fake rating of 1900.
Agreed. Also cheaters' accounts are suspicious and should alert interviewers that something is off.
I've heard that in India one cannot even get a job interview until they show a decent rating on some CP platform. I don't know of it is true or not, bit if it is, then cheating won't stop any time soon, unless IT companies abandon this practice. And they probably won't, because it is such an easy and cheap way to reject job candidates.
In some companies, yes. CP rating is generally in "OR" with some other condition to filter the candidates.
Make a country/region whitelist: Europe, USA, Canada, Australia, Russia, China, Taiwan, South Korea, Japan. No more cheating. Problem solved.
by your logic anyone living in first world countries does not cheat and only them is allowed onto cf while everyone in third world countries are cheaters and should be banned?
Singapore is also first world and not on the list btw
Thanks for the correction, Singapore should be there too. China and Russia are second world btw, so the claim that I suggest only first world countries should be allowed is false.
From these countries the only cheater I know is PinkieRabbit. Can you name at least 5 more? Because from countries not included I know very few to none who are actually good at CP, and plenty who are cheaters.
China and Russia are very powerful and rich countries, can be counted towards first world but go on
I'd say your country is third world actually, maybe your country should be banned from participating aswell since your country doesn't bring any value to cp (according to how you value it), since I don't know any good CPers from Hungary
Sure bro. We have an LGM, no big deal. And how many hungarian cheaters have you heard of?
never heard of the lgm, your country has 0 value.
Keep seething. India never had and will never have an LGM, despite having 150x the population.
not even indian but go on
Even people from the so called top IIT'S are also cheating to boost their ranks whether using telegram groups or forming groups among themselves after being guided that only a good rating is the source of a good job(by some morons). IDK if it's going to end but surely not in the coming future
This is one of the big problems in cp today... Unbelievable but this is bad for true codders.
I think the best option would be to add the required phone and then register an account. And if you cheating just ban the phone number...