Meta 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.

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

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
2024 [5]	Online	Ziqian Zhong	Yui Hosaka	Mateusz Radecki
2023 [6]	Online	Gennady Korotkevich	Benjamin Qi	Alexey Danilyuk
2022 [7]	Online	Benjamin Qi	Tiancheng Lou	Marek Sokolowski
2021 [8]	Online	Andrew He	Alexey Danilyuk	Lingyu Jiang
2020 [9]	Online*	Gennady Korotkevich	Benjamin Qi	Andrew He
2019 [10]	Dublin, Ireland	Gennady Korotkevich	Mikhail Ipatov	Petr Mitrichev
2018 [11]	Menlo Park, California, United States	Mikhail Ipatov	Makoto Soejima	Andrew He
2017 [12]	Seattle, Washington, United States	Petr Mitrichev	Park Sung Gwan	Mikhail Ipatov
2016 [13]	London, United Kingdom	Makoto Soejima	Yuhao Du	Ting-Wei Chen
2015 [14]	Menlo Park, California, United States	Gennady Korotkevich	Dmytro Soboliev	Gleb Evstropov
2014 [15]	Menlo Park, California, United States	Gennady Korotkevich	Tomasz Czajka [pl]	Makoto Soejima
2013 [16]	Menlo Park, California, United States	Petr Mitrichev	Jakub Pachocki	Marcin Smulewicz
2012 [17]	Menlo Park, California, United States	Roman Andreev	Tomasz Czajka [pl]	Tiancheng Lou
2011 [18]	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
China	1	2	3
Japan	1	2	1
Poland	0	3	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