Every few months the same argument comes back around: does competitive programming make you a better engineer, or does it just make you good at competitive programming? People who did it defend it. People who did not point out, correctly, that nobody has ever shipped a segment tree to production.
Source: [Dev.to](https://dev.to/nabeelbaghoor/four-icpc-habits-that-survived-production-and-two-i-had-to-unlearn-4554)