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.

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/

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]

Past winners

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Tournament Finals location 1st place 2nd place 3rd place
2023 [5] Online   Gennady Korotkevich   Benjamin Qi   Alexey Danilyuk
2022 [6] Online   Benjamin Qi   Tiancheng Lou   Marek Sokolowski
2021 [7] Online   Andrew He   Alexey Danilyuk   Lingyu Jiang
2020 [8] Online*   Gennady Korotkevich   Benjamin Qi   Andrew He
2019 [9] Dublin, Ireland   Gennady Korotkevich   Mikhail Ipatov   Petr Mitrichev
2018 [10] Menlo Park, California, United States   Mikhail Ipatov   Makoto Soejima   Andrew He
2017 [11] Seattle, Washington, United States   Petr Mitrichev   Park Sung Gwan   Mikhail Ipatov
2016 [12] London, United Kingdom   Makoto Soejima   Yuhao Du   Ting-Wei Chen
2015 [13] Menlo Park, California, United States   Gennady Korotkevich   Dmytro Soboliev   Gleb Evstropov
2014 [14] Menlo Park, California, United States   Gennady Korotkevich   Tomek Czajka   Makoto Soejima
2013 [15] Menlo Park, California, United States   Petr Mitrichev   Jakub Pachocki   Marcin Smulewicz
2012 [16] Menlo Park, California, United States   Roman Andreev   Tomek Czajka   Tiancheng Lou
2011 [17] Menlo Park, California, United States   Petr Mitrichev   Khúc Anh Tuấn   Tiancheng Lou
  • Since 2020, Hacker Cup Finals was moved to an online format in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Results by country

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Country 1st place 2nd place 3rd place
  Russia 5 1 3
  Belarus 5 0 0
  USA 2 2 2
  Japan 1 1 1
  Poland 0 3 2
  China 0 2 3
  Ukraine 0 2 1
  South Korea 0 1 0
  Vietnam 0 1 0
  Taiwan 0 0 1

See also

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References

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  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.
  5. ^ "Standings for Meta Hacker Cup 2023 - Competitive Programming Hall Of Fame". cphof.org. Retrieved 2023-12-09.
  6. ^ "Standings for Meta Hacker Cup 2022 - Competitive Programming Hall Of Fame". cphof.org. Retrieved 2022-12-11.
  7. ^ "Standings for Facebook Hacker Cup 2021 - Competitive Programming Hall Of Fame".
  8. ^ "2020 Facebook Hacker Cup - Final Round Scoreboard". Facebook.
  9. ^ "2019 Facebook Hacker Cup - Final Round Scoreboard". Facebook.
  10. ^ "2018 Facebook Hacker Cup - Final Round Scoreboard". Facebook.
  11. ^ "2017 Facebook Hacker Cup - Final Round Scoreboard". Facebook.
  12. ^ "2016 Facebook Hacker Cup - Final Round Scoreboard". Facebook.
  13. ^ "2015 Facebook Hacker Cup - Final Round Scoreboard". Facebook.
  14. ^ "2014 Facebook Hacker Cup - Final Round Scoreboard". Facebook.
  15. ^ "2013 Facebook Hacker Cup - Final Round Scoreboard". Facebook.
  16. ^ "2012 Facebook Hacker Cup - Final Round Scoreboard". Facebook.
  17. ^ "2011 Facebook Hacker Cup - Final Round Scoreboard". Facebook.
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