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Re:Which Universities Have the Best Coders in the World? by 989809809809 on Monday January 09, 2017 @10:38AM (#13357055)
Lame question: what exactly is HackerRank? Some poor man's version of TopCoder?
Re:Which Universities Have the Best Coders in the World? by pacaro on Monday January 09, 2017 @01:01PM (#13358235)
Their equivalent. Neither gives a detailed enough signal to be useful for anything other than posturing. My experience with competitive coders has been just as mixed as with the rest of the candidate pool.

I've observed a strategy of preferentially hiring competition coders have no discernible positive impact.