WIPRO CODE STORMA case study on running an internal Hackathon

using HackerEarth

The Requirement

To conduct an internal hackathon for Wipro’s CTO o�ce department, which would engage programmers through algorithmic coding problems.

CONTEST FORMATIt was a week long programming contest which was called Wipro Code Storm

An approximate question was used as a tie breaker between the �nal list of contestants who got all the right answers

Before the actual contest there was a practice challenge so that thedevelopers could get acquainted with the platform

A new problem was posted every day. Each problem being more di�cult that its predecessor

The problems were Algorithmic programming, Approxcimate andCode gulf problems

Problems were designed on Wipro’s business use case too

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

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%

99%73%83%

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Detailed reports on individual performances to derive actual programming aptitude

BENEFIT OF USING HACKEREARTH

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