Google Code Jam
StatusDiscontinued
FrequencyAnnually
VenueOnline
CountryWorldwide
Years active2003–2022
Inaugurated2003
Attendance35,500 (2019)[1]
Budget$15,000 for winner, smaller prizes for runners-up
Patron(s)Google
Websitehttps://codingcompetitions.withgoogle.com/codejam (shut down on July 1, 2023)

Google Code Jam was an international programming competition hosted and administered by Google.[2] The competition began in 2003.[3] 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 obtain their solutions. From 2003 to 2007, Google Code Jam was deployed on Topcoder's platform. Since 2008 Google has developed their own dedicated infrastructure for the contest.

Between 2015 and 2018[4], Google also ran Distributed Code Jam, with the focus on distributed algorithms.[5] This was run in parallel with the regular Code Jam, with its own qualification and final round, for a top prize of $10,000, but was only open for people who qualified to Round 2 of Code Jam (up to 3000 people).

Several Google Code Jam problems have led to academic research.[6]

On February 22, 2023, Google announced that Code Jam was to be discontinued alongside their other programming competitions, Hash Code and Kick Start.[7] A series of four "farewell rounds" took place on April 15, 2023 from 14:00 until 18:00 UTC, with all rounds taking place at the same time.[8] Login functionality for Google's programming competitions was disabled on June 1, 2023, followed by the shut down of the competitions' hosting platform exactly one month later, on July 1, 2023. A permanent archive of all Code Jam, Hash Code and Kick Start problems is available for download on GitHub.[9][10]

Past winners

Google Code Jam

Tournament Finals location Registrants Qual Advancers 1st place 2nd place 3rd place
2022 Online 28,111[11] Belarus Gennady Korotkevich China Lingyu Jiang Canada Kevin Sun
2021 Online 93,000 25,961[12] China Xiuhan Wang Japan Shogo Murai United States Scott Wu
2020 Online[a] 96,000 30,221[13] Belarus Gennady Korotkevich Canada Kevin Sun United States Andrew He
2019 San Francisco, United States 74,000 27,610[14] Belarus Gennady Korotkevich Japan Makoto Soejima United States Andrew He
2018 Toronto, Canada 62,000 14,093[15] Belarus Gennady Korotkevich Poland Kamil Debowski Japan Makoto Soejima
2017 Dublin, Ireland 64,000 18,331[16] Belarus Gennady Korotkevich Russia Konstantin Semenov Russia Vladislav Epifanov
2016 New York City, United States 58,520 22,154[17] Belarus Gennady Korotkevich[18] Philippines Kevin Atienza Russia Egor Kulikov
2015 Seattle, United States 56,749 12,438[19] Belarus Gennady Korotkevich Japan Makoto Soejima South Africa Bruce Merry
2014 Los Angeles, United States[20] 49,066 20,595[21] Belarus Gennady Korotkevich Russia Evgeny Kapun China Yuzhou Gu
2013 London, United Kingdom 45,754 17,059[22] Belarus Ivan Metelsky[23] Ukraine Vasil Bileckiy Russia Vladislav Isenbaev
2012 New York City, United States 20,613 15,692[24] Poland Jakub Pachocki United States Neal Wu Slovakia Michal Forišek
2011 Tokyo, Japan 21,940 10,336[25] Japan Makoto Soejima Belarus Ivan Metelsky Poland Jakub Pachocki
2010 Dublin, Ireland 12,092 8,308[26] Russia Egor Kulikov Netherlands Erik-Jan Krijgsman Russia Sergey Kopeliovich
2009 Mountain View, United States 10,000 7,516[27] China Tiancheng Lou China Zichao Qi Japan Yoichi Iwata
2008 Mountain View, United States[28] 11,044 6,774 China Tiancheng Lou China Zeyuan Zhu South Africa Bruce Merry
2006 New York City, United States ? Russia Petr Mitrichev China Ying Wang Russia Andrey Stankevich
2005 Mountain View, United States ? Poland Marek Cygan[29] Netherlands Erik-Jan Krijgsman Russia Petr Mitrichev
2004 Mountain View, United States ? Argentina Sergio Sancho United States Po-Ru Loh United States Reid Barton
2003 Mountain View, United States ? Sweden Jimmy Mårdell Canada Christopher Hendrie Russia Eugene Vasilchenko
  1. ^ Originally scheduled to take place in Munich, Germany, but later was converted to online format in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Distributed Code Jam

Tournament Finals location Competitors 1st place 2nd place 3rd place
2018 Toronto, Canada ? Poland Mateusz Radecki Philippines Kevin Atienza Poland Tomek Czajka
2017 Dublin, Ireland 3,000 United States Andrew He Russia Evgeny Kapun Netherlands Erik-Jan Krijgsman
2016 New York City, New York, United States 3,000 South Africa Bruce Merry China Yuzhou Gu Czech Republic Filip Hlasek
2015 Seattle, Washington, United States 3,000 South Africa Bruce Merry Poland Marcin Smulewicz Taiwan Ting Wei Chen

Results by country

Country 1st place 2nd place 3rd place
Belarus Belarus 9 1 0
China China 3 4 1
Russia Russia 2 2 7
Poland Poland 2 1 1
Japan Japan 1 3 2
Argentina Argentina 1 0 0
Sweden Sweden 1 0 0
United States USA 0 2 4
Canada Canada 0 2 1
Netherlands Netherlands 0 2 0
Philippines Philippines 0 1 0
Ukraine Ukraine 0 1 0
South Africa South Africa 0 0 2
Slovakia Slovakia 0 0 1

See also

References

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