Google Code Jam Latin America 2007

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Google Code Jam Latin America 2007

3/13/2007 03:35:00 PM

Posted by Berthier Ribeiro Neto, Engineering Site Director, Google
Brazil
On March 1, we celebrated the Latin American coding community by
hosting the first-ever Google Code Jam Latin America competition.
Registrations definitely exceeded expectations: more than 5,000 eager
programmers from around the continent signed up. The Code Jam consists
of two online rounds, in which participants compete to solve three
coding problems more quickly and accurately than their competitors.
Then we invited the top 50, who came from across the region (and
included one woman!), to compete in the onsite finals at our
engineering office in Belo Horizonte.
This year's grand prize went to Fábio Dias Moreira, a student at
Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro. The winner of the
2004 Global Code Jam, Sergio Sancho of Buenos Aires, took second
place. Here's a photo of me with Fábio just after he'd won.
This Code Jam also featured Google engineering presentations and
information about our R&D activities in Latin America. We're delighted
that so many of the finalists expressed their interest in joining
Google. If you're interested yourself, visit our global jobs page.
Labels: Brazil, Google Code Jam, Latin America