Code Gladiators: India’s Major Coding Contest Invites Registrations

Renowned for creating the largest community of Techies in India – TechGig has taken the next logical step of getting Corporates involved in the community a big way.. Code Gladiators is going to be a corporate battle – the best talent from IT companies will battle it out to a fight to the finish.

The contest is all set to showcase the Company with the best Coders by identifying the Best Coder in the Country. This online event takes place through out the months of April and May in an online format – leading up to the LIVE finals, which shall be held in Delhi in June between the top 40 coders from across the country .

TechGig has been a pioneer in conducting technology related contests  for internal employees, , company-sponsored contests for talent engagement and various employer-branding activities. Code Gladiators combines all these activities and takes the scale to an entirely different level – one where employees from companies across India will be involved at the same time. This innovative format will start with internal contests to identify the best coders in companies, then give coders a chance to compete against the best coders from other companies, and give companies the opportunity to prove that they have the best coding talent and the best ecosystem to nurture and  encourage coding talent – the best place to work.

Speaking of TechGig Code Gladiators , Business Head, Avnish Anand explains, “The scale of this contest gives us an unparalleled opportunity to provide industry insights by creating detailed analyses of how coding ability varies across demography and present a host of benchmark reports including geographic, academic, institutional and corporate benchmarks. Such a study has not been undertaken before due to lack of scale and data.”

“While traditionally organisations have been wary of such competitions fearing that their best people might be ‘exposed’ – we are surprised to find that more progressive organisations have responded and 37 companies have already signed up, even before the official launch.” adds Anand.

Companies echo the same sentiments

“We live in an era of rapid technological changes and I think Code Gladiators is a great platform to challenge the brightest minds in the field to show their mettle. This is the first time Team Persistent will be participating in a coding competition. We see it as a good opportunity for individuals as well as for the organization to assess where we stand as compared to our competitors.” agreed Nitinchandra Shende, Head-Talent Management, Persistent Systems limited.

“We believe that global industry is at an inflection point where business innovation is being driven by user experience. Technology is playing the role of the enabler. Code Gladiators, we think will set up the ideal platform to incubate the philosophy of innovation among developers. This event helps our technical experts to showcase their capability on a national level. At the same time also enables us to identify and engage with the top technical talent in the country.” states Arvind Ramachandra, Chief Architect of Altimetrik

Other major corporates participating in the TechGig Code Gladiators Championship include the well-known names of Akamai, Synechron, Schneider Electric, Symantec, Nokia Siemens, Sasken, Calsoft, Panacea, Informatica, Seclore, McAfee, Cvent, and Unisys.

Registrations are open to Companies who can register for the event and use internal coding contests to identify their top coders. A company can enter upto 8 coders for the inter-company battle.

The second stage will be the Regional Semifinals – where the best winning coders from each company will pit themselves against each other. Followed by the National Final - a live event to be held in Delhi.

The contest will be held in the following programming languages – C, C++, C#, Java, Java script, PHP,  VB.NET, Ruby on Rails, Python and Perl. Gladiators will be allowed to compete in multiple languages.

Applications are open to all IT firms  till the end of April 2014. – companies can contact Ankur Gupta ( ankur.gupta2@timesgroup) to participate in the contest.