Challenge

Booking.com prides itself on their diversity and are now taking “Girl Power” to a whole new level. Think you have what it takes?

Embark upon Amsterdam like you own the place and tackle some of the world’s biggest travel challenges with enthusiasm, attitude and passion!

Your programming skills along with your creative thinking will be needed to apply algorithms, data structures, machine-learning, coding and data mining to create customer focused solutions.

There will be 6 system graded questions coded and scored on HackerRank. Once completed, you will be eligible to win prizes! Our grand prize you ask? A trip to Amsterdam in July 2017 to participate in our 3-day hackathon.

Prizes

Grand Prize

The best of the best will win a trip to Amsterdam to join our three days Hackathon

Rank 1

Imagination gift card to spend on whatever or wherever (Value of 200€). On top of that, you will win a Project I-1 Analog Instant Camera along with at least 1 holiday’s worth of film.

Rank 2-5

Imagination gift card (Value of 100€)

Rank 1-20

A Booking.com goodie bag

About

Hack a holiday is now at it's third edition. On top of bragging rights, the best of the best won a trip to Amsterdam and spent three days hacking with us.

Meet the women technologists who build the world’s largest accommodation site. We’re proud to represent a truly talented and diverse team of pathfinding programmers, data-miners, fearless front-enders and designers.

Rules

The codesprint takes place on Friday, April 21st 2017 from 15:00 PM CEST until Sunday, April 23 2017 15:00 PM CEST.
There are 6 system-graded challenges to solve. Scoring details for each system-graded challenge will be available when the contest begins. HackerRank’s scoring decisions are final and cannot be changed.
You can code using our interface, which currently supports over 40 major languages. Learn about our environment and time limits here. If you are not yet familiar with our platform, check out Solve Me First to acquaint yourself.
All submissions are checked by a plagiarism detector. Any case of code plagiarism will disqualify both users from the competition.
You must identify as a woman to be eligible to win a prize.
Prizes will be awarded to those participants who have given consent to share their information with Booking.com.
Booking.com is solely responsible for setting and communicating the eligibility requirements associated with prizes awarded to participants, as well as for procurement and distribution of all prizes. Booking.com holds HackerRank harmless from and against any and all claims, losses, damages, costs, awards, settlements, orders, or fines.

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Hack A Holiday: All Women Edition

Friday, April 21, 2017

15:00 PM (48 hours /2 days)