Join the 1st TechHire CodeSprint and get on your pathway to a job placement!
Saturday, July 23rd at 9am ET
Sign up for TechHire CodeSprint"It turns out it doesn't matter where you learned code, it just matters how good you are at writing code."
- President Barack Obama
Competition
Looking for a job and ready to show off your coding skills?
Compete with other TechHire job seekers and get hired.
What is TechHire CodeSprint?
- A set of 6-8 online coding challenges that test for tech skills
- A competition open to all TechHire communities nationwide, and anyone with nontraditional education
Who Can Participate?
- Any TechHire job seeker located in a TechHire community pursuing/continuing IT training,or who learned to code themselves or in a coding bootcamp, MOOC, or other short-term training program.
- A TechHire job seeker is someone who has little or no experience in an IT occupation and lacks a 4-year college degree in computer science or a similar discipline.
How Does a CodeSprint Work?
- You have 48 hours starting 9AM EST on Saturday, July 23 to complete up to 8 coding challenges
- On the day of the contest, simply login to the HackerRank TechHire CodeSprint page and start coding!
- Challenges are scored according to a rubric, with attention to quality, functionality of code
- Employers will see the names, contact info and scores of the top participants across the nation and regionally.
TechHire Communities Hosting Events
- Austin, Birmingham, Atlanta, Rhode Island, Akron, Cincinnati + More coming soon!
Get a Head Start
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Challenge Prizes
1st Place
$2,000 USD
2nd Place
$1,000 USD
3rd Place
$500 USD
Top 40
$100 Amazon gift card
Top 150
TechHire T-Shirts
Competition Rules
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The contest is open to all coders within the TechHire communities. US-only. Challenge questions should be answered individually, not as a team.
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Prizes will be rewarded to those participants who gave consent to share their information with sponsoring companies.
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Please refrain from discussing strategy during the contest.
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Any case of code plagiarism will result in disqualification of both the users from the contest.
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We will be hosting the online contest from July 23th, 9:00 AM ET to July 25th, 9:00 AM ET.
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All the challenges will have a predetermined score. Score of a game is calculated using Bayesian Approximation.
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You can code directly on our interface. We support 30 major languages. You can have a look at the environment in which we run your code. You can try out sample code given in Solve Me First to get familiar with I/O.
