programming contests as a way of finding/evaluating offshore talent...

[bruce]

hi..

i'm looking for opinions on the "worth" of programming contests as a way of
judging the talent of potential software developers...

any thoughts/pros/cons would be appreciated..

and yeah.. i know this is a little off topic.. but some of us here deal with
these issues.. if you know of a better email list for this kind of question,
let me know, and i'll move it to there..

thanks in advance!

-bruce