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Did any of you interview and having a good Project Euler account was positively recognized?

This never happened to me. No one seems to know the site. They seem to be mostly interested in Top Coder and similar platforms.

164 here. I did it on and off for many many years. Personally I don't think there is much value in grinding these. It's rather a fun pastime every now and then.

That said, I believe the 100-150 easiest (i.e. solved by the most people) problems are all OK. Many of them take one hour or less. I think, it never took more than a weekend for one.

Many of the ~2006 problems can be brute forced nowadays with a low level language, which makes them quite a bit easier.

What is the best thing to do with my savings? I am thinking about investing, and read up on it. One thing I don't understand is where to put money to minimize the impact of a recession. Government bonds? But then Graham says, I think, bonds prices also rise in a bull market, and fall afterwards.