Writing high-quality code depends on many factors, but if there's one that probably stands above the rest, it's accumulating hours of experience. There's always something new to learn, errors to discover, tricks to share, and needs to be met. The portal HackerRank has the ability, among other things, to evaluate the best programmers on the planet and, by extension, determine which countries occupy the top positions. Here is the ranking.
Just as there are good and bad doctors, teachers, engineers, architects, and basically any other career you can think of, it's also necessary to separate programmers by the quality of their work. Those who manage to optimize their work to the fullest and maintain a solid maintenance discipline are highly valued in almost any development setting, but the pressure is great these days, and most companies prefer developers who deliver as soon as possible, only to fix errors that appear along the way. So how can we detect the best programmers? After all, there is no standard when it comes to evaluation, so we depend on private platforms like HackerRank, which publishes its own country ranking with the most talented and skilled programmers in the market.
The HackerRank Ranking
Undoubtedly, the competition is fierce, but it's no surprise to see that China (100 points) and Russia (99.9 points) occupy first and second place respectively. Poland (98 points) completes the podium, meaning three countries are within just two points of each other. Japan appears in sixth place, Spain in position 18, and the best Latin American country on the list is Chile, which manages to surpass the United States (positions 27 and 28). Despite its enormous number of representatives in the IT market, India is at position 31. In fact, the situation of India and the United States is quite striking, as they contribute the largest number of programmers (I suppose that must "dilute" their score in some way).
HackerRank has also created rankings based on other elements, including the best countries by domain (algorithms, databases, artificial intelligence, specific languages, etc.), the popularity of languages in each region, and a tenacity index (percentage of programmers who give up on a challenge and receive a score of zero). HackerRank published this information a couple of months ago, and if I'm not mistaken, it updates annually, so it remains valid.
