Google Code Jam

Google Code Jam is 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.

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

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]

Past winners

Google Code Jam
Tournament Finals location Registrants Qual Advancers 1st place 2nd place 3rd place
2020 Online* 96,000 30,221[7] Gennady Korotkevich Kevin Sun Andrew He
2019 San Francisco, United States 74,000 27,610[8] Gennady Korotkevich Makoto Soejima Andrew He
2018 Toronto, Canada 62,000 14,093[9] Gennady Korotkevich Kamil Debowski Makoto Soejima
2017 Dublin, Ireland 64,000 18,331[10] Gennady Korotkevich Konstantin Semenov Vladislav Epifanov
2016 New York City, New York, United States 58,520 22,154[11] Gennady Korotkevich[12] Kevin Atienza Egor Kulikov
2015 Seattle, Washington, United States 56,749 12,438[13] Gennady Korotkevich Makoto Soejima Bruce Merry
2014 Los Angeles, United States[14] 49,066 20,595[15] Gennady Korotkevich Evgeny Kapun Yuzhou Gu
2013 London, United Kingdom 45,754 17,059[16] Ivan Metelsky[17] Vasil Bileckiy Vladislav Isenbaev
2012 New York City, United States 20,613 15,692[18] Jakub Pachocki Neal Wu Michal Forišek
2011 Tokyo, Japan 21,940 10,336[19] Makoto Soejima Ivan Metelsky Jakub Pachocki
2010 Dublin, Ireland 12,092 8,308[20] Egor Kulikov Erik-Jan Krijgsman Sergey Kopeliovich
2009 Mountain View, California, United States 10,000 7,516[21] Tiancheng Lou Zichao Qi Yoichi Iwata
2008 Mountain View, California, United States[22] 11,044 6,774 Tiancheng Lou Zeyuan Zhu Bruce Merry
2006 New York City, United States ? Petr Mitrichev Ying Wang Andrey Stankevich
2005 Mountain View, California, United States ? Marek Cygan[23] Erik-Jan Krijgsman Petr Mitrichev
2004 Mountain View, California, United States ? Sergio Sancho Po Ruh Loh Reid Barton
2003 Mountain View, California, United States ? Jimmy Mårdell Christopher Hendrie Eugene Vasilchenko
  • The 2020 Code Jam World Final was originally scheduled to take place in Munich, Germany, but later was converted to online format in response to COVID-19 pandemic.

Distributed Code Jam
Tournament Finals location Competitors 1st place 2nd place 3rd place
2018 Toronto, Canada ? Mateusz Radecki Kevin Atienza Tomek Czajka
2017 Dublin, Ireland 3,000 Andrew He Evgeny Kapun Erik-Jan Krijgsman
2016 New York City, New York, United States 3,000 Bruce Merry Yuzhou Gu Filip Hlasek
2015 Seattle, Washington, United States 3,000 Bruce Merry Marcin Smulewicz Ting Wei Chen
Google Code Jam structure (2018). Numbers denote how many people advance to the next round. Colors denote format of the competition: yellow – you run your code locally and submit results and the source, blue – you submit your code and Google runs it in a distributed environment.

Results by country
Country 1st place 2nd place 3rd place
Belarus 8 1 0
China 2 3 1
Russia 2 2 7
Poland 2 1 1
Japan 1 2 2
Argentina 1 0 0
Sweden 1 0 0
USA 0 2 3
Netherlands 0 2 0
Canada 0 2 0
Philippines 0 1 0
Ukraine 0 1 0
South Africa 0 0 2
Slovakia 0 0 1

See also

References
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