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Join the Morgan Stanley CodeSprint to solve the world’s most complex financial challenges and learn what it’s like to work at Morgan Stanley.

Beginning Saturday, August 6th, you’ll have 24 hours to solve 6 algorithmic challenges similar to what the Morgan Stanley team faces everyday. This is your chance to get discovered by Morgan Stanley, meet the team and win killer prizes. Learn more here.

Top 50 coders will win the following prizes: - Top 10 coders win iPad Air or Kindle Paperwhite - Top 50 coders win Morgan Stanley merchandise

Code to uncode opportunities

Welcome to the third edition of the student coding competition sponsored by Morgan Stanley.

This challenge will be based on solving algorithmic challenges. You will be given 24 hours to solve six challenges. The contest is scheduled to start at 6:00 p.m. on Saturday, August 6, 2016, and finish on Sunday, August 7, 2016, at 6:00 p.m.

This contest is open to all for participation, but only students in India based colleges across all disciplines in their pre-final and final year of an undergraduate or Master’s program are eligible for prizes and career opportunities.

Registration will remain open throughout the duration of the contest. Sign up now and discover career opportunities with Morgan Stanley.

For further information, please refer to FAQ document.

Prizes

Prizes for top winners include:
  • iPad Air / Kindle Paperwhite for top 10 programmers.
  • An opportunity to be assessed for an internship or full-time position with the Morgan Stanley Technology division in Mumbai or Bengaluru.
  • Morgan Stanley branded merchandise for the top 50 programmers.

Rules

  • Please refrain from discussing strategy during the contest.
  • All submissions are checked by a plagiarism detector. Any case of code plagiarism will disqualify both users from the contest.
  • You can also 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 with I/O.
  • Please note, the participation at this contest does not assure you any job guarantee at Morgan Stanley. HackerRank and the Morgan Stanley Organizing Committee’s decision will be final.

Scoring

  • Each challenge has a pre-determined score.
  • Each submission for each problem will be scored based on the number of testcases it passes.
  • A participant's total score is the sum of the scores earned for each problem attempted. If you submitted more than one solution for a problem, only the highest score achieved will be used in this calculation.
  • Participants are ranked by score, with the cumulative time taken (between the competition start time and the time of your correct submission) used to break ties.

Past Contests

Please see photos from last year’s competition below.


Contest winners with Bjarne Stroustrup, designer and implementer of the C++ programming language and a Managing Director at Morgan Stanley (left)

Nicky Ranganathan, Managing Director and Head of Technology in India, awarding a certificate to one of the winners of the 2015 Codeathon (right)

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