How to conduct an internal Hackathon within your company to engage developers and find the best developers in your company and understanding the technical climate of your company

1. WIPRO CODE STORM
A case study on running an internal Hackathon
using HackerEarth

2. The Requirement
To conduct an internal hackathon for
Wipro’s CTO oce department, which
would engage programmers through
algorithmic coding problems.

3. CONTEST FORMAT
It was a week long programming contest which was called Wipro
Code Storm
Before the actual contest there was a practice challenge so that the
developers could get acquainted with the platform
A new problem was posted every day. Each problem being more
dicult that its predecessor
The problems were Algorithmic programming, Approxcimate and
Code gulf problems
Problems were designed on Wipro’s business use case too
An approximate question was used as a tie breaker between the
nal list of contestants who got all the right answers

4. WIPRO CODE STORM IN NUMBERS
Total participants 2952
Total attempts at solving at least one problem 1089
Total number of submissions 19681
Number of people who got all problems right 42

5. STATISTICS
17% participants
could solve at least
one problem
27% of the participants
engaged in a complex
algorithm programming
challenge
About 1% of the
participants
were exceptional
17% 27%
1%
83% 73% 99%

6. FIND THE MOST PREFERRED LANGUAGE IN YOUR ORG.
HackerEarth platform allows the use of all the popular programming languages

7. QUANTIFY YOUR TECH CLIMATE
A detailed report on submissions analytics to understand how your developers code

8. FIND YOUR HIDDED TECH
SUPERSTARS
Detailed reports on individual performances to derive actual programming aptitude

9. BENEFIT OF USING HACKEREARTH
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An innovative method of engaging your tech team in a
productive manner
A great way to measure the tech peer climate of your
organization
Targeted insights about your organisation’s tech
behaviour and trends
Great way of identifying talent hidden in your work force
A unique way to get introduced to algorithmic
competitive coding for the uninitiated
Highly scalable overall engagement on a tech level

10. CONTACT
contact@hackerearth.com