“Warsaw University has the best IT professionals in the world” What a lovely headline I read in Gazeta Wyborcza! How upbeat! Feels like someone had a near miss trying to pat ME on the back! (Warsaw University of Technology rather than Warsaw University - that would have sounded sweeter to me). Oh, but wait… Not quite…

The story is that currently Warsaw University is leading the schools’ ranking and its student, Tomek is leading in the algorithms ranking in top coder competition. FULL STOP.

Not getting sour about the missed pat, I must say - such generalizations aren’t particularly fair to the non-scholar competitors and participants of the developer/designer competitions.

I would be much happier to see some proper survey data about the ingenuity of the Polish IT people from eg. Gartner, rather than some serious overstatements of a would-be journalist.

Oh well, seems there’s no shortcuts - I will have to do some work in order to get a pat ;-)