Google Code Jam

Google Code Jam
Status	Active
Frequency	Annually
Country	Worldwide
Years active	11
Attendance	10,000+
Website
	https://code.google.com/codejam/

Google Code Jam is an international programming competition hosted and administered by Google. The competition began in 2003 as a means to identify top engineering talent for potential employment at Google.^[1] 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.

In 2008, over 11,000 people from more than 128 countries competed for prize money totaling over $80,000, including a top prize of $10,000.^[2]

Past winners

Tournament	Finals location	Competitors	1st place	2nd place	3rd place
2015	Seattle, Washington, United States	23,200+	Gennady Korotkevich	Makoto Soejima	Bruce Merry
2014	Los Angeles, United States	25,400+	Gennady Korotkevich	Evgeny Kapun	Yuzhou Gu
2013	London, United Kingdom	21,200+	Ivan Metelsky	Vasil Bileckiy	Vladislav Isenbaev
2012	New York City, United States	20,613	Jakub Pachocki	Neal Wu	Michal Forišek
2011	Tokyo, Japan	14,397	Makoto Soejima	Ivan Metelsky	Jakub Pachocki
2010	Dublin, Ireland	12,092	Egor Kulikov	Erik-Jan Krijgsman	Sergey Kopeliovich
2009	Mountain View, California, United States	10,000+	Tiancheng Lou	Zichao Qi	Yoichi Iwata
2008	Mountain View, California, United States	11,000+	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	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