Meta Hacker Cup Explained

Meta Hacker Cup
Status:	Active
Frequency:	Annually
Country:	Worldwide
Years Active:	2011–present
First:	2011
Last:	September 22 - December 9, 2023
Attendance:	20,234 (2023)^[1]
Budget:	$20,000 for winner, smaller prizes for runners-up
Organised:	Meta Platforms
Website:	https://www.facebook.com/codingcompetitions/hacker-cup/

Meta Hacker Cup (formerly known as Facebook Hacker Cup) is an annual international programming competition hosted and administered by Meta Platforms. The competition began in 2011 as a means to identify top engineering talent for potential employment at Meta Platforms.^[2] 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 write their solutions.

Facebook Hacker Cup is part of a circuit of annual international programming contests that included Google Code Jam, Topcoder Open, and the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest. It has been featured in articles from Bloomberg^[3] and Stack Overflow.^[4]

Past winners

Tournament	Finals location	1st place	2nd place	3rd place
2023 ^[5]	Online	Gennady Korotkevich	Benjamin Qi	Alexey Danilyuk
2022 ^[6]	Online	Benjamin Qi	Tiancheng Lou	Marek Sokolowski
2021 ^[7]	Online	Andrew He	Alexey Danilyuk	Lingyu Jiang
2020 ^[8]	Online*	Gennady Korotkevich	Benjamin Qi	Andrew He
2019 ^[9]	Dublin, Ireland	Gennady Korotkevich	Mikhail Ipatov	Petr Mitrichev
2018 ^[10]	Menlo Park, California, United States	Mikhail Ipatov	Makoto Soejima	Andrew He
2017 ^[11]	Seattle, Washington, United States	Petr Mitrichev	Park Sung Gwan	Mikhail Ipatov
2016 ^[12]	London, United Kingdom	Makoto Soejima	Yuhao Du	Ting-Wei Chen
2015 ^[13]	Menlo Park, California, United States	Gennady Korotkevich	Dmytro Soboliev	Gleb Evstropov
2014 ^[14]	Menlo Park, California, United States	Gennady Korotkevich	Tomek Czajka	Makoto Soejima
2013 ^[15]	Menlo Park, California, United States	Petr Mitrichev	Jakub Pachocki	Marcin Smulewicz
2012 ^[16]	Menlo Park, California, United States	Roman Andreev	Tomek Czajka	Tiancheng Lou
2011 ^[17]	Menlo Park, California, United States	Petr Mitrichev	Khúc Anh Tuấn	Tiancheng Lou

• Since 2020, Hacker Cup Finals was moved to an online format in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Results by country

Country	1st place	2nd place	3rd place
Russia	5	1	3
Belarus	5	0	0
USA	2	2	2
Japan	1	1	1
Poland	0	3	2
China	0	2	3
Ukraine	0	2	1
South Korea	0	1	0
Vietnam	0	1	0
Taiwan	0	0	1

See also

• Google Code Jam
• Online judge
• Topcoder Open

External links

• Facebook Hacker Cup

Notes and References

1. Web site: 2023 Meta Hacker Cup - Round 1 Scoreboard. Facebook.
2. Web site: Announcing the Facebook 2011 Hacker Cup. Facebook. 2010-12-10.
3. News: The Jocks of Computer Code Do It for the Job Offers. Bloomberg News. 25 September 2015 .
4. Web site: The puzzle masters behind Facebook's Hacker Cup explain how they craft questions. 25 October 2019.
5. Web site: Standings for Meta Hacker Cup 2023 - Competitive Programming Hall Of Fame . 2023-12-09 . cphof.org . en.
6. Web site: Standings for Meta Hacker Cup 2022 - Competitive Programming Hall Of Fame . 2022-12-11 . cphof.org . en.
7. Web site: Standings for Facebook Hacker Cup 2021 - Competitive Programming Hall Of Fame.
8. Web site: 2020 Facebook Hacker Cup - Final Round Scoreboard. Facebook.
9. Web site: 2019 Facebook Hacker Cup - Final Round Scoreboard. Facebook.
10. Web site: 2018 Facebook Hacker Cup - Final Round Scoreboard. Facebook.
11. Web site: 2017 Facebook Hacker Cup - Final Round Scoreboard. Facebook.
12. Web site: 2016 Facebook Hacker Cup - Final Round Scoreboard. Facebook.
13. Web site: 2015 Facebook Hacker Cup - Final Round Scoreboard. Facebook.
14. Web site: 2014 Facebook Hacker Cup - Final Round Scoreboard. Facebook.
15. Web site: 2013 Facebook Hacker Cup - Final Round Scoreboard. Facebook.
16. Web site: 2012 Facebook Hacker Cup - Final Round Scoreboard. Facebook.
17. Web site: 2011 Facebook Hacker Cup - Final Round Scoreboard. Facebook.