Google Code Jam

Google Code Jam
Status	Discontinued
Frequency	Annually
Venue	Online
Country	Worldwide
Years active	2003–2022
Inaugurated	2003
Attendance	35,500 (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.

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

Tournament	Finals location	Registrants	Qual Advancers	1st place	2nd place	3rd place
2021	Online	93,000	25,961 [11]	Xiuhan Wang	Shogo Murai	Scott Wu
2020	Online [a]	96,000	30,221 [12]	Gennady Korotkevich	Kevin Sun	Andrew He
2019	San Francisco, United States	74,000	27,610 [13]	Gennady Korotkevich	Makoto Soejima	Andrew He
2018	Toronto, Canada	62,000	14,093 [14]	Gennady Korotkevich	Kamil Debowski	Makoto Soejima
2017	Dublin, Ireland	64,000	18,331 [15]	Gennady Korotkevich	Konstantin Semenov	Vladislav Epifanov
2016	New York City, United States	58,520	22,154 [16]	Gennady Korotkevich [17]	Kevin Atienza	Egor Kulikov
2015	Seattle, United States	56,749	12,438 [18]	Gennady Korotkevich	Makoto Soejima	Bruce Merry
2014	Los Angeles, United States [19]	49,066	20,595 [20]	Gennady Korotkevich	Evgeny Kapun	Yuzhou Gu
2013	London, United Kingdom	45,754	17,059 [21]	Ivan Metelsky [22]	Vasil Bileckiy	Vladislav Isenbaev
2012	New York City, United States	20,613	15,692 [23]	Jakub Pachocki	Neal Wu	Michal Forišek
2011	Tokyo, Japan	21,940	10,336 [24]	Makoto Soejima	Ivan Metelsky	Jakub Pachocki
2010	Dublin, Ireland	12,092	8,308 [25]	Egor Kulikov	Erik-Jan Krijgsman	Sergey Kopeliovich
2009	Mountain View, United States	10,000	7,516 [26]	Tiancheng Lou	Zichao Qi	Yoichi Iwata
2008	Mountain View, United States [27]	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, United States		?	Marek Cygan  [ pl ] [28]	Erik-Jan Krijgsman	Petr Mitrichev
2004	Mountain View, United States		?	Sergio Sancho	Po-Ru Loh	Reid Barton
2003	Mountain View, United States		?	Jimmy Mårdell	Christopher Hendrie	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

Tournament	Finals location	Competitors	1st place	2nd place	3rd place
2018	Toronto, Canada	?	Mateusz Radecki	Kevin Atienza	Tomasz Czajka  [ pl ]
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

Results by country

Country	1st place	2nd place	3rd place
Belarus	9	1	0
China	3	4	1
Russia	2	2	7
Poland	2	1	1
Japan	1	3	2
Argentina	1	0	0
Sweden	1	0	0
USA	0	2	4
Canada	0	2	1
Netherlands	0	2	0
Philippines	0	1	0
Ukraine	0	1	0
South Africa	0	0	2
Slovakia	0	0	1

See also

• Google Code
• Online judge
• Topcoder Open

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External links

• Google – Code Jam Archived 24 June 2022 at the Wayback Machine