Facebook Hacker Cup 2 invites all top coders

If you think your coding skills are world class, then here is an excellent stage to prove the same as a global footprint. Facebook invites you to prove the same the its second annual hacker cup competition.

Facebook thinks in line with the thought that hacking requires the best out of one's coding skills and even the company said at its blog - "Hacking is core to how we build at Facebook." They believe that hacking is the best way to solve problems while achieving major milestones like Facebook Timeline or a smarter search algorithm.

This code war is open to coders anywhere in the world to find out the best coder. The competetion will have five round of programming challenge with the first round kicking off January 20th as a 72 hours qualification round. Before the final round there will be three more online round to limit the finalists count to 25. These finalists will be called upon at Facebook's Menlo Park, Calif., headquarters for a final competition in March. 

The winner here will receive a $5,000 cash prize. Last year, nearly 12,000 programmers participated in the Hacker's Cup and Petr Mitrichev, a Google employee(who ironically was wearing his Google employee badge during the competition.) from Russia, took home the top prize.

Taking it to business prospective, tech companies have an ulterior motive for running hacking contest as it is a great way to find skilled programmers, one of the industry's scarcest resources. Google runs an annual Code Jam contest for the same and our Facebook Hacker cup winner Mitrichev have won this contest as well in 2006.