Hello everyone, I'm relatively new to community and CP in general. As I can see most of competitors are in their early 20s and I'm courious about your future career/professional plans/goals and how you can think CP can help you to achieve those goals.
To start I'll give you my background, I'm 32 years old, working as software engineer/architect for more than 12 years. In next years I'm looking forward to start my own software business. I do CP for fun.
get the yellow color
Lol. Lmao. Get the green color.
lol.lmao.kek.blyat. Participate at the contest.
Rofl. Says the one who spends 10 minutes of contest solving problem A and spends 1h 50 min not knowing what to do.
Says the one who insults people all day long not knowing what the hell to do beside it
Do you know any other stuff , apart from making fun of others / insulting them ? @LanceTheDragonTrainer
I got into the CP world around a year and a half ago, a couple of months after getting rejected by a big 4 company at a campus recruitment week. I started solving a couple of "interview" problems at LeetCode (which I do not consider as CP) and I came across with a professor at my campus who was teaching an elective called "Competitive Programming". This was around the end of the spring semester, and since I had no internship that summer I spent around 6 to 8 hours everyday reading the elective material and solving problems. Quickly I fell in love with it and in the next semester I got an offer for an internship by the same company that rejected me a year ago (actually I got two big 4 offers). This year I got another one (from one of the big 4 I didn't get last year) and this will be my final internship. I'm 22 and I owe everything to CP. It gave me the confidence in myself that I was lacking two years ago (even though i'm still div 2 :))
Kinda depends on which country you are in. If you are in a country where there are a lot of talents, you won't stand a chance.
Do big companies recruit based on local relative performance? I thought they would mostly accept based on global relative performance.
I don't think I'm qualified to answer this, but I applied for two of the companies I mentioned online and had an online interviewing process, just like everyone who applies online for an internship, so I would like to think this was mostly "global relative performance" as opposed to campus recruiting.
Interesting. Congrats on your success!
I somewhat agree. In my country it is really common to attend a public highschool ("free", like the one I went to) where we were never introduced to programming, so maybe it is true that (as farmersrice says below) "local relative performance" comes into play, I think it is because of opportunities some people had and the "level" they achieved based on this. I know I would not stand a chance in many countries, but at least i'm putting a lot of effort given the opportunities I had (and the ones I've enabled). Back in highschool I had a part time job, as well as for all the years before I got the offers in order to pay for my college tuition. Because of this I was never a participant in the IOI, for example. Its not an excuse of course, people who have prepared all their lives should get what they deserve.