Russian winner of Google Code Jam: “I’ve had it with the glory”

Last Friday, 27 October, the search giant Google announced the results of the Global Code Jam 2006 programmer competition, held in New York. First prize was awarded to the Russian Petr Mitrichev, fifth-grade student of the mechanics and mathematics faculty of the Moscow State University. Over 21,000 programmers from 100 countries took part in the competition. 100 made it to the final, representing 24 countries. 32 Russians found themselves in the top one hundred, far more than from any other country. In an interview with Webplanet.ru Mitrichev informed that he had been invited to work at Google but that he had turned them down for now, as he wants to complete his studies and has no plans for the present to work on search engines.