Meta Hacker Cup

Meta Hacker Cup
StatusActive
FrequencyAnnually
CountryWorldwide
Years active2011–present
Inaugurated2011
Most recentSeptember 22 - December 9, 2023
Attendance20,234 (2023)[1]
Budget$20,000 for winner, smaller prizes for runners-up
Organised byMeta Platforms
Websitehttps://www.facebook.com/codingcompetitions/hacker-cup/

Meta Hacker Cup (formerly known as Facebook Hacker Cup) is an annual international programming competition hosted and administered by Meta Platforms. The competition began in 2011 as a means to identify top engineering talent for potential employment at Meta Platforms.[2] 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 write their solutions.

Facebook Hacker Cup is part of a circuit of annual international programming contests that included Google Code Jam, Topcoder Open, and the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest. It has been featured in articles from Bloomberg[3] and Stack Overflow.[4]

  1. ^ "2023 Meta Hacker Cup - Round 1 Scoreboard". Facebook.
  2. ^ "Announcing the Facebook 2011 Hacker Cup". Facebook. 2010-12-10.
  3. ^ "The Jocks of Computer Code Do It for the Job Offers". Bloomberg News. 25 September 2015.
  4. ^ "The puzzle masters behind Facebook's Hacker Cup explain how they craft questions". 25 October 2019.

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