This just smacks of defensive justification for lack of participation. "I don't do this and I don't want to do this, so I'm going to bash it and the people who do it so I can pretend I'm making a choice instead of just being lazy". It's a little bit like the folks who say, "I'm saving myself for marriage" when in reality they've never been on a date in their lives.
Pretending like people can't think in more than one mindset is an inaccurate model. I've never done an honest-to-goodness coding competition, but I can imagine someone who does code competitively to think very differently when they're competing vs. when they're designing/implementing a solution as a professional endeavor.
Someone would have to explain to me in much more detail how this "negative correlation" is established before I believe it.
I have refused to do a couple of time pressure hacker rank challenges as part of a job interviews recently, as it is not how I work on a day to day basis. I was good at these sort of things fresh out of university 15 years ago. I have never had to implement any algorithm under time pressure in my professional career.
I would like to think it is at least somewhat related to what I am doing, rather than a lucky dip of a question that I might get or might not. I am a way better software engineer than 15 years ago, yet I am worse at these sort of "challenges".
There's a lot more to being a software engineer than coding competence, and timed questions reveal the non-coding competence parts of your abilities more than anything else.
Why does crate thinking have to done fast? I find my best and most creative solutions come randomly after thinking about them "in the background" for a while.
Pretending like people can't think in more than one mindset is an inaccurate model. I've never done an honest-to-goodness coding competition, but I can imagine someone who does code competitively to think very differently when they're competing vs. when they're designing/implementing a solution as a professional endeavor.
Someone would have to explain to me in much more detail how this "negative correlation" is established before I believe it.