BlackRock CodeSprint Online Hackathon

You've got what it takes.

Come hack the world's most complex financial challenges.

Friday, June 10th

3pm Eastern for 48 hours

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Prizes

1st Place

$2000 Amazon gift card + BlackRock T-Shirt

2nd Place

$1000 Amazon gift card + BlackRock T-Shirt

3rd Place

$500 Amazon gift card + BlackRock T-Shirt

4th-54th Place

BlackRock T-Shirt

About Us

BlackRock brings together the best of a technology pioneer and a financial leader to offer engineers a truly unique place to make a difference.
Leverages BIGGER DATA. To deliver SMARTER MONEY. And drive MASSIVE IMPACT in the lives of millions of people around the globe.

From our days as a start-up, BlackRock has brought together some of the best minds in engineering and finance to:

• Leverage data in ways and on a scale never before done in finance
• Stretch the boundaries of what's possible
• Reimagine, reinvent and reengineer the way we invest.

Every day, our engineers and investors:

• Manage 4 million financial instruments representing trillions in assets
• Process 12 million financial transactions
• Compute 100 million Monte Carlo iterations
• Transmit 10 billion messages
• Execute 6 billion database transactions
• Monitor 2,000+ risk factors and 32,000 indices
• Generate 25+ million option-adjusted calculations
• Run 2+ billion Cassandra operations
• Carry out 250,000 trades

Rules

BlackRock CodeSprint is an online code competition open to all developers worldwide.
This is an individual participation contest.
Any case of code plagiarism will result in disqualification.
Code directly from our platform, which supports over 30 languages. Learn more here.
BlackRock and HackerRank decisions are final.
Please expect 6-8 weeks post competition to receive T-shirts.
Residences of the following countries and territories are not eligible to win prizes due to legal restrictions: Antarctica, Afghanistan, Cote D'ivoire, Cuba, Belarus, Bouvet Island, British Indian Ocean Territory, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Christmas Island, Equatorial Guinea, Haiti, Heard Island and Mcdonald Islands, Iran, Islamic Republic of Iraq, Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea), Lao People's Democratic Republic (Laos), Lebanon, Liberia, Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, Myanmar, Nigeria, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Serbia and Montenegro, Sudan, Syrian Arab Republic, Zimbabwe.

Careers/Culture

What do we need as the world's financial leader to create MASSIVE IMPACT, leverage BIGGER DATA, and manage MONEY SMARTER?

Ingenuity. Pioneers. Talent. YOU.

With BLACKROCK ENGINEERING, the dynamic, challenging and rewarding career you want is at your fingertips. And make a real difference in a business that really matters. Whatever your interest, there is a place for you to grow here - across businesses, backgrounds and borders. You'll benefit from the room and resources to roll up your sleeves and dive into an environment driven by:

INNOVATION
constant, industry-leading innovation across all of our technologies, with extensive investment in platforms and capabilities

COLLABORATION
continuous learning from financial and technology pioneers and data innovators, with the opportunity to sharing your ideas with the engineering community through open source

PROBLEM-SOLVING
in a flexible, creative environment that rivals any Silicon Valley startup

PASSION
for people and performance with the chance to take on real responsibility for helping shape and build a global business

PURPOSE
you'll take on and help answer life-changing questions for clients and the people who depend on them: what to do with their money.

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Our Technology - Aladdin

Aladdin® is an operating system for investment managers that connects the information, people and technology needed to manage money in real time. The Aladdin platform combines sophisticated risk analytics with comprehensive portfolio management, trading and operations tools on a single platform to power informed decision-making, effective risk management, efficient trading and operational scale.

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