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12 April 2012updated 26 Sep 2015 7:46pm

China has better hackers than us

The failure to teach computer science in schools and universities bites back

By Alex Hern

The Register reports on new statistics released by the coding site Interview Street which illustrate the dominance of developing economies in the field of information technology.

The site offers jobseekers tricky coding challenges to solve, with the idea being that the coders who have objectively demonstrated their merit will get picked up by big tech firms (it seems to work; Business Insider claims that Facebook and Zynga recruit from the site). They also have leaderboards, with the best candidate’s countries listed. And guess who dominates the boards:

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