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I looked at one of the problems of the final round, looked at the solution, read it for hours, and I couldn't implement it correctly.
Then, there are these top 3 who came up with their own solution and wrote correct code within 20 minutes.
For comparison, I can consistently be in the top 1000 of Google codejam. So, I consider myself a fairly good coder.
I experienced this with topcoder as well. There are some people who are way too smart.
10x programmers and engineers are very much real. It is just rare.
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I looked at one of the problems of the final round, looked at the solution, read it for hours, and I couldn't implement it correctly.
Then, there are these top 3 who came up with their own solution and wrote correct code within 20 minutes.
For comparison, I can consistently be in the top 1000 of Google codejam. So, I consider myself a fairly good coder.
I experienced this with topcoder as well. There are some people who are way too smart.
10x programmers and engineers are very much real. It is just rare.