Finale 2014

Two months back, TechGigCode Gladiator, India’sbiggest coding competition,

started with 64 companies and 36 thousand participants, who wentthrough two intense qualifyingrounds to reach the Grand Finale.The final round saw 64 coders and30 companies. This final round washeld at Orbis, The Leela Ambience,Gurgaon. TechGig Code Gladiators– Hunt for India’s Best Coders washeld in 10 programming languageswhich included C, C++, C#, Java,Java script, PHP, VB.NET, Ruby onRails, Python and Perl.

The top companies to reach thegrand finale, included Persistent,Schneider Electric, Steria, Sears

Holdings, MetricStream, AkamaiTechnologies, Unisys, HCL,McAfee, RedBus.in and NetCoreamong 64 participating companies.

After a daylong marathon ofsolving coding problems,Maninderpal Singh of Drishti Softwon the most coveted title of ‘thebest coder’ and winner of TechGig

Code Gladiator Finale 2014. Amongcompanies, Persistent ruled theroost and was named the bestcompany of TechGig CodeGladiator 2014.

Talking about his experience atTechGig Code Gladiator,Maniderpal Singh said, “CodeGladiator was a great learning

Rank Winner Company Name

1 Maninderpal Singh Drishti Soft

2 Dilip Singh Drishti Soft

3 Sonu Singal Algoworks

4 Mayank Pine Labs

5 Saurabh Pandey Akamai

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TechGig Code Gladiator, India’s biggest coding contest, recently culminatedwith 64 coders and 30 companies, where Maninderpal Singh of Drishti Soft wonthe coding competition and Persistent was named the best company of theTechGig Code Gladiator 2014

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experience, personally andprofessionally. It gave me anopportunity to assess my skillsagainst my peers and has helpedme tremendously to hone mycoding skills. I also earnedaccolades from the industryleaders. TechGig Code Gladiatorhas opened up many newavenues for me.”

Speaking on the winningcontest, Nitinchandra Shende,head of talent management,Persistent said, “We thoroughlyenjoyed the Code Gladiators -Right from interaction with theorganisers to running internalcampaigns encouragingemployees to participate to theoverwhelming response fromemployees across the globe to bea part of the final and the finalethat raised the glamourquotient, it was all exciting forus and our employees.”

“Assessments and competitionare a way of life. Employees faceit from time to time. That keepsup the excitement. CodeGladiator has raised this bar andtaken this to the next level ofexcitement. As an organizationit helped us both in our internalengagement as well asbenchmarking ourselves againstthe peer group companies,”further added Shende.

Participating companies feltthat Code Gladiator was a greatplatform to attract, assess andhire the best coding talent in thecountry. Supporting the same,Jeyandran Chandrasekaran,talent acquisition leader,Thermo Fisher Scientific, SouthAsia Life Sciences Solution said,“Code Gladiator helped usidentify the best coding talentwithin the company and inhiring the best talent. As an

employer we participate in suchevents to position ourselves. Wealso want the market to knowwhat we do.”

All together, it was a win-winsituation for both participatingcompanies (employers) andparticipants (candidates). Whereemployers were able to identifyand showcase their brand to thebest coding talent of the country,for candidates, TechGig CodeGladiator was their goldenchance to showcase their talentto the leading IT and technologycompanies of the country.

The event came to an end witha promise to come back nextyear to start the hunt all overagain. TechGig Code Gladiatoremerged as the single largestnetworking platform for codingcompanies and coders to hireand get hired.

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Women are equally good coders

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Coders, typically, are roles synonymous with men inthe IT industry. Enter the Tecgig.com Code GladiatorFinale arena and you might change your mind. Despitebeing few in numbers, the fairer sex is gung-ho abouttaking up any coding challenge both, on and off the job.

This is what women coders have to say about theupsides and downsides of their profession:

Passionate about the job

“Traditionally, men are believed to be better codersthan women because apparently women are weak inlogical reasoning and analytical skills. But I don'tthink that's true. Most women leave coding jobs forbetter work-life balance, but there are women coderswho are really passionate and good at their work.”Supreeta Keminje, software engineer, AllScripts

Gender doesn't matter

“Coders are judged by their efficiency to deliver a goodcode. Gender does not play any role in this. CodingContests like TechGig Code Gladiators, help coders tobrush up their knowledge and become more confidentabout the work they do.”Trapti Mittal, senior software developer, Cvent

Breaking the myth

“Most people think that men are better coders thanwomen. But, it is a myth and women should not worryabout this. They should focus on delivering the bestcode they can.” Ira Aggarwal, senior software developer, Cvent

Good multi-taskers and better coders

“Women should not feel that they are less than men inanyway where coding is concerned. In fact, in my view,women turn out to be better coders than men as theyare good at multi-tasking.” Pinky Singh, Senior Software Engineer, Info Edge

A new generation of women armed with coding skillshave a great shot at joining the tech workforce or startingtheir own tech ventures

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“I had a great time at TechGig.comCode Gladiator. This contest hashelped me to brush up my skills andlearn things in a unique fashion. Fora coder, it is a great platform tonetwork with peers and prospectiveemployers. In fact, I was able to usemy learning from Code Gladiator tosolve my client’s task. I woulddefinitely like to participate again inthe second leg of this event.”

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Sapient Global Markets

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“I am a software tester by profession, but was alwaysvery interested in coding. Code Gladiator gave me aplatform to showcase my coding skills and enhancethem by solving problems which will also help me infuture. By participating in this contest, I was able tolearn new things and hone my coding skills.”

“Code Gladiator is a fantastic platform forboth employers and employees. Foremployers, it helps in engaging the internalemployees and is the ideal place to attractand hire some of the best coders in thecountry. For employees, it is a great way tohave a peer-to-peer networking andbenchmarking and actually assess wherethey stand within the company and in themarket. A great initiative by TechGig.com. ”

“We hire talent from Fortune 500companies. By means of TechGig.comCode Gladiator, we will be able tocreate a strong branding buzz amongthe employees of these companies aswell as internal employees. In myview, coding contests are the best wayto engage employees and identify thetop talent within your company.”

supreeta kemiNJe

software engineer,

AllScripts

director engineering,

Akamai Technologies

harish kammaNahallia

talent acquisition leader,

South Asia

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Code Gladiators is a fantastic event. It givesopportunities to the coder as well as to thecompany to actually showcase their talentand also nurture them. I would rate the event8 on 10. It is a pretty good event and we aretaking back a lot of new learnings.

director-Product Development, Cvent

Vikas gulati

Code Gladiators is a great platform for us tolook at the hunting ground for coders becausewe are a service organisation and we hire a lotof coders. This is definitely a good platform tolook at. I will rate it 8 or 9 on 10.

SVP-HR, Steria India

Natasha siNgh

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