Programmers of ITMO University win the ACM ICPC for the sixth time

Re:Programmers of ITMO University win the ACM ICPC for the s... by elfnt on Saturday May 23, 2015 @05:29AM (#9592435)

dude, you are just plain wrong in this. any of the (few) major software organizations in Russia know very well what ACM/icpc are. the winners definitely get a preferred treatment in the interview pipeline.

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Re:Programmers of ITMO University win the ACM ICPC for the s... by custo15 on Sunday May 24, 2015 @06:47AM (#9595880)

If you mean companies such Yandex, Mail, ABBYY (but not Kaspersky, huh) or something like that - I agree. Winners of ACM will get "preferred treatment", definetely. This will not affect their salaries a lot, but that's true.

But you missed my point. I argue that ACM is something extremely prestigious and people practicies a lot in mass. This is not true. And companies such Yandex and Mail is not a some kind of great place to work.

But if I will interview a candidate and know he participated (not won) in ACM I will be much more interested in him.

But there's not so many such candidates, mm..? )

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