| Via CodeJam, which is the annual competition conducted by Google for coders and is being conducted out of India for the first time ever, the company plans to target coders and programmers across South Asia. |
| According to Lalitesh Katragadda, joint center head for Google's R&D,"We expect thousands of people to participate in the competition since its online nature makes it easy for people to register and take part. All residents of India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Maldives, Myanmar, Nepal, Singapore and Thailand can register and compete." |
| Registrations will be open till February 25. On February 27, contentants will compete online to qualify for the top 500 spots. These 500 will again battle themselves for the 50 final positions. |
| The finalists thus chosen will be flown to the Google R&D centre here for the championship round on March 26. The winner of Google India CodeJam will receive Rs 3 lakh while additional cash prizes totalling Rs 13 lakh will be distributed among the other finalists. |
| Google was unwilling to reveal the exact number of recruitments out of the competition. |
| "Hiring is a secondary motivation of this contest. The primary reason is to recognize the practical art of computer science. We do look for strong programming knowledge among the people we hire and we hope the competiton will yield some of that talent. We will show some of them around the R&D centre and if they wish to apply, we will take it up from there," Katragadda added. Google opened its R&D centre in Bangalore in early 2004, employs around 20 engineers . |
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