Google Code Jam

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Google Code Jam
Google Code Jam logo.png
StatusDiscontinued
FrequencyAnnually
VenueOnline
CountryWorldwide
Years active2003–2022
Inaugurated2003
Attendance35,500 (2019) [1]
Budget$15,000 for winner, smaller prizes for runners-up
Patron(s)Google
Website https://codingcompetitions.withgoogle.com/codejam (shut down on July 1, 2023)

Google Code Jam was 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.

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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]

On February 22, 2023, Google announced that Code Jam was to be discontinued alongside their other programming competitions, Hash Code and Kick Start. [7] A series of four "farewell rounds" took place on April 15, 2023 from 14:00 until 18:00 UTC, with all rounds taking place at the same time. [8] Login functionality for Google's programming competitions was disabled on June 1, 2023, followed by the shut down of the competitions' hosting platform exactly one month later, on July 1, 2023. A permanent archive of all Code Jam, Hash Code and Kick Start problems is available for download on GitHub. [9] [10]

Past winners

Google Code Jam

TournamentFinals locationRegistrantsQual Advancers1st place2nd place3rd place
2022Online28,111 [11] Flag of Belarus.svg Gennady Korotkevich Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Lingyu Jiang Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Kevin Sun
2021Online93,00025,961 [12] Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Xiuhan Wang Flag of Japan.svg Shogo Murai Flag of the United States.svg Scott Wu
2020Online [lower-alpha 1] 96,00030,221 [13] Flag of Belarus.svg Gennady Korotkevich Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Kevin Sun Flag of the United States.svg Andrew He
2019 San Francisco, United States 74,00027,610 [14] Flag of Belarus.svg Gennady Korotkevich Flag of Japan.svg Makoto Soejima Flag of the United States.svg Andrew He
2018 Toronto, Canada 62,00014,093 [15] Flag of Belarus.svg Gennady Korotkevich Flag of Poland.svg Kamil Debowski Flag of Japan.svg Makoto Soejima
2017 Dublin, Ireland 64,00018,331 [16] Flag of Belarus.svg Gennady Korotkevich Flag of Russia.svg Konstantin Semenov Flag of Russia.svg Vladislav Epifanov
2016 New York City, United States 58,52022,154 [17] Flag of Belarus.svg Gennady Korotkevich [18] Flag of the Philippines.svg Kevin Atienza Flag of Russia.svg Egor Kulikov
2015 Seattle, United States 56,74912,438 [19] Flag of Belarus.svg Gennady Korotkevich Flag of Japan.svg Makoto Soejima Flag of South Africa.svg Bruce Merry
2014 Los Angeles, United States [20] 49,06620,595 [21] Flag of Belarus.svg Gennady Korotkevich Flag of Russia.svg Evgeny Kapun Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Yuzhou Gu
2013 London, United Kingdom 45,75417,059 [22] Flag of Belarus.svg Ivan Metelsky [23] Flag of Ukraine.svg Vasil Bileckiy Flag of Russia.svg Vladislav Isenbaev
2012 New York City, United States 20,61315,692 [24] Flag of Poland.svg Jakub Pachocki Flag of the United States.svg Neal Wu Flag of Slovakia.svg Michal Forišek
2011 Tokyo, Japan 21,94010,336 [25] Flag of Japan.svg Makoto Soejima Flag of Belarus.svg Ivan Metelsky Flag of Poland.svg Jakub Pachocki
2010 Dublin, Ireland 12,0928,308 [26] Flag of Russia.svg Egor Kulikov Flag of the Netherlands.svg Erik-Jan Krijgsman Flag of Russia.svg Sergey Kopeliovich
2009 Mountain View, United States 10,0007,516 [27] Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Tiancheng Lou Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Zichao Qi Flag of Japan.svg Yoichi Iwata
2008 Mountain View, United States [28] 11,0446,774 Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Tiancheng Lou Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Zeyuan Zhu Flag of South Africa.svg Bruce Merry
2006 New York City, United States  ? Flag of Russia.svg Petr Mitrichev Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Ying Wang Flag of Russia.svg Andrey Stankevich
2005 Mountain View, United States  ? Flag of Poland.svg Marek Cygan [29] Flag of the Netherlands.svg Erik-Jan Krijgsman Flag of Russia.svg Petr Mitrichev
2004 Mountain View, United States  ? Flag of Argentina.svg Sergio Sancho Flag of the United States.svg Po-Ru Loh Flag of the United States.svg Reid Barton
2003 Mountain View, United States  ? Flag of Sweden.svg Jimmy Mårdell Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Christopher Hendrie Flag of Russia.svg Eugene Vasilchenko
  1. ↑ Originally scheduled to take place in Munich, Germany, but later was converted to online format in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Distributed Code Jam

TournamentFinals locationCompetitors1st place2nd place3rd place
2018 Toronto, Canada  ? Flag of Poland.svg Mateusz Radecki Flag of the Philippines.svg Kevin Atienza Flag of Poland.svg Tomek Czajka
2017 Dublin, Ireland 3,000 Flag of the United States.svg Andrew He Flag of Russia.svg Evgeny Kapun Flag of the Netherlands.svg Erik-Jan Krijgsman
2016 New York City, New York, United States 3,000 Flag of South Africa.svg Bruce Merry Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Yuzhou Gu Flag of the Czech Republic.svg Filip Hlasek
2015 Seattle, Washington, United States 3,000 Flag of South Africa.svg Bruce Merry Flag of Poland.svg Marcin Smulewicz Flag of the Republic of China.svg Ting Wei Chen

Results by country

Country1st place2nd place3rd place
Flag of Belarus.svg Belarus910
Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg China341
Flag of Russia.svg Russia227
Flag of Poland.svg Poland211
Flag of Japan.svg Japan132
Flag of Argentina.svg Argentina100
Flag of Sweden.svg Sweden100
Flag of the United States.svg USA024
Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Canada021
Flag of the Netherlands.svg Netherlands020
Flag of the Philippines.svg Philippines010
Flag of Ukraine.svg Ukraine010
Flag of South Africa.svg South Africa002
Flag of Slovakia.svg Slovakia001

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