Join thousands of participants in the largest CodeSprint ever, a 24-hour hack featuring 11 challenges that span the CS disciplines in every level of difficulty. Put your coding skills to the test, and you could win amazing prizes, interview at leading tech companies, or simply sharpen your competitive edge. Happy hacking!
Prizes
AWS Credit
All participants with at least one successful solution will receive $100 in AWS credit.
Apple Gift cards
The top 20 competitors will be awarded a $100 Apple gift card.
Regional Winners
We will also award prizes to the top regional winners. Stay tuned for details.
Challenges
This CodeSprint will consist of 11 challenges, ranging in difficulty and discipline. It will appeal to programmers who are interested in algorithmic challenges, AI/ML challenges, functional programming (FP challenges) and general programming. You can code directly on our interface using our code-editor, which supports 12 major languages, or you may upload your own code. Details about our coding environment are available here.
To get accustomed with the environment, check out the sample contest here.
Contest Rules & Details
- Each challenge will have a raw score associated with it. A participant's final score is calculated by: Σ (participant's percentile in each challenge * raw score of challenge).
- For multiplayer games, the challenge leaderboard is temporary and after the contest ends we'll run every bot against every other bot (if there are n users, there will be nxn games played). The final score will be decided after all of the games have been played (maximum 24 hours).
- There is no penalty for submitting multiple solutions to each challenge.
- Please refrain from discussing strategy during the contest.
- Any case of code plagiarism will result in the disqualification of both the participants from the contest.
- Any decision by HackerRank admins will be final.
Terms and Conditions
- Right to cancel or modify. HackerRank reserves the right to cancel, suspend or modify the CodeSprint5 Contest if any problem prevents CodeSprint5 from running as planned.
- Release. All entrants agree to release and hold HackerRank harmless from and against any claim associated with the CodeSprint5 Contest.
- Limitation of liability. HackerRank is not responsible and cannot be held liable for technical errors or other things that may prevent the CodeSprint5 Contest from running as planned.
- Right to substitute. HackerRank reserves the right to substitute any prize with another prize of equal or greater value if the advertised prize is not available.
- Forum selection. These CodeSprint5 Contest rules shall be governed by the State of California without regard to any conflicts of law provisions.
Jobs
- Once the contest ends, each participant will have 48 hours to contact the sponsoring companies via a direct link and express their interest in being contacted for recruiting purposes.
- Sponsor companies will be notified of any candidate interest and will conduct any interview process from that point.
- Participants may be contacted ONLY by sponsor companies to whom they explicitly express interest, and participants may choose to participate in the contest for fun or prizes only.
