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> What do they do after that?

I know a few. They either started their own companies or have regular jobs.

Performance in competitive programming doesn't necessarily translate to performance in software engineering, which is really a different discipline altogether. Chiefly it has much more to do with dealing with the human factor.

To quote my distributed systems professor: Technical problems are mostly solvable. Most unsolvable problems are not technical.



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