Goodbye to Google Code Jam
Competitive coding has always been a bit of a joke, but it&#x27;s a great entry vector for kids to get introduced to programming (and eventually software engineering).  I&#x27;m not entirely sure how to feel about this, though.  I have always been suspicious that the existence of the game of competitive coding has been used to kind of justify the &quot;leetcodification&quot; of the tech interview circuit, and (IMO) that can&#x27;t go away soon enough.