Facebook Hacker Cup

Facebook Hacker Cup is an international programming competition hosted and administered by Facebook. The competition began in 2011 as a means to identify top engineering talent for potential employment at Facebook.[1] The competition consists of a set of algorithmic problems which must be solved in a fixed amount of time. Competitors may use any programming language and development environment to obtain their solutions.

In 2011, over 11,000 people from around the world competed to solve some of the most difficult algorithmic coding challenges in three online elimination rounds.[2] The winner was Petr Mitrichev followed by Anh Tuan Khuc (Vietnam) and Tiancheng Lou (China).

Past winners

Tournament 1st place 2nd place 3rd place
2015 Belarus Gennady Korotkevich Ukraine Dmytro Soboliev Russia Gleb Evstropov
2014 Belarus Gennady Korotkevich Japan Makoto Soejima Japan Makoto Soejima
2013 Russia Petr Mitrichev Poland Jakub Pachocki Poland Marcin Smulewicz
2012 Russia Roman Andreev Russia kanching China Tiancheng Lou
2011 Russia Petr Mitrichev Vietnam Khúc Anh Tuấn China Tiancheng Lou

Results by country

Country 1st place 2nd place 3rd place
Russia Russia 3 0 1
Belarus Belarus 2 0 0
Poland Poland 0 3 1
Ukraine Ukraine 0 1 0
Vietnam Vietnam 0 1 0
China China 0 0 2
Japan Japan 0 0 1

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Announcing the Facebook 2011 Hacker Cup". 2010-12-10.
  2. ↑ "Facebook Hacker Cup Finals: A Champion is Crowned". 2011-03-13.

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