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SNAPDEAL HACKATHON
In February 2010, Kunal Bahl along with Rohit Bansal, started Snapdeal.com - India's largest online marketplace, with the widest assortment of 12 million+ products across 500+ diverse categories from thousands of regional, national, and international brands and retailers.
In its journey till now, Snapdeal has partnered with several global marquee investors and individuals such as SoftBank, BlackRock, Temasek, eBay Inc., Premji Invest, Intel Capital, Bessemer Venture Partners, Mr. Ratan Tata, among others.
With millions of users and 150,000 sellers, Snapdeal is the shopping destination for internet users across the country, delivering to 5000+ cities and towns in India. With its acquisition of Freecharge in 2015, a leading mobile transactions platform, Snapdeal has become the largest mCommerce company in the country.
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 undergraduate or integrated dual degree course are eligible for prizes.
This is a team contest with each team having a minimum of 2 members and maximum of 3 members from the same college.
If you register as a single person team, you will not be considered for prizes and progression in further rounds.
Update:There has been a slight change in rule for Snapdeal Hackathon. Now you can participate as a single member team also. However please note that final on premise round is an app development Hackathon. So if you don't have a team you will be randomly assigned to a team for competing in the final round.
Top contestants from Round 1 will be moved to Round 2. Exact details pertaining to those results shall be announced within a week.
Duration of Round 1 of the contest is 5 hours.
Contest will consist of 3 rounds:
All teams that reach Preliminary Finals will recieve Certificate of Participation.
Snapdeal can disqualify and forfeit the prizes of any team if they attempt to undermine the contest decorum by
(a) violating Snapdeal & Hacker Rank Code of Conduct at any stage of the contest
(b) providing false information about him/her to be eligible for the prizes
(c) misbehaving with other participant or contest administrators at any stage of the contest.
Each submission for each problem will be scored, based on number of testcases it passes. Participants are ranked according to their scores.