Meta 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.

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
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
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

References
  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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