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 Belarus Gennady Korotkevich United States Benjamin Qi Ukraine Alexey Danilyuk
2022 [6] Online United States Benjamin Qi China Tiancheng Lou Poland Marek Sokolowski
2021 [7] Online United States Andrew He Ukraine Alexey Danilyuk China Lingyu Jiang
2020 [8] Online* Belarus Gennady Korotkevich United States Benjamin Qi United States Andrew He
2019 [9] Dublin, Ireland Belarus Gennady Korotkevich Russia Mikhail Ipatov Russia Petr Mitrichev
2018 [10] Menlo Park, California, United States Russia Mikhail Ipatov Japan Makoto Soejima United States Andrew He
2017 [11] Seattle, Washington, United States Russia Petr Mitrichev South Korea Park Sung Gwan Russia Mikhail Ipatov
2016 [12] London, United Kingdom Japan Makoto Soejima China Yuhao Du Taiwan Ting-Wei Chen
2015 [13] Menlo Park, California, United States Belarus Gennady Korotkevich Ukraine Dmytro Soboliev Russia Gleb Evstropov
2014 [14] Menlo Park, California, United States Belarus Gennady Korotkevich Poland Tomek Czajka Japan Makoto Soejima
2013 [15] Menlo Park, California, United States Russia Petr Mitrichev Poland Jakub Pachocki Poland Marcin Smulewicz
2012 [16] Menlo Park, California, United States Russia Roman Andreev Poland Tomek Czajka China Tiancheng Lou
2011 [17] Menlo Park, California, United States Russia Petr Mitrichev Vietnam Khúc Anh Tuấn China 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 Russia 5 1 3
Belarus Belarus 5 0 0
United States USA 2 2 2
Japan Japan 1 1 1
Poland Poland 0 3 2
China China 0 2 3
Ukraine Ukraine 0 2 1
South Korea South Korea 0 1 0
Vietnam Vietnam 0 1 0
Taiwan 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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