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Want A Job? Interview Street Is Holding CodeSprints Every Week

Y Combinator-backed Interview Street is accelerating the pace of its CodeSprints, where programmers prove their worth to potential employers by completing coding problems in a limited period of time.

The startup held its second big CodeSprint last month. The event seems like a success — 5,221 people participated, 665 of them actually applied to companies, and co-founder Vivek Ravisankar tells me that more than 100 of those applicants are now in the final round of interviews. More than 86 companies participated — and judging from the applications, Facebook was the most desirable employer, followed by Microsoft and Quora.
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This Online Coding Contest Could Get You a Job Interview With Facebook, Apple and Amazon

How is this for a gauge of how desperately technology companies are seeking programmers? Over the weekend, any coder can audition for jobs at companies such as Facebook, Amazon, Groupon and Apple simultaneously — without changing out of their pajamas. Programmer database startup Interviewstreet is hosting an online coding challenge called CodeSprint beginning Friday, and 75 technology companies will be looking for employment candidates on its leaderboard.
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Interview Street first Indian company to be chosen for an incubation programme at Y Combinator

BANGALORE: A two-year-old Bangalore start-up that builds technology to make hiring smarter has become the first Indian company to be chosen for an incubation programme at Y Combinator, the iconic Silicon Valley seed fund.
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Interview Street’s CodeSprint Developer Contest To Help Developers Show Their Skills To Companies

Interview Street has been busy building out new ways for developers to prove their skills to potential employers, and now it’s introducing a 48-hour contest to help them show off their skills. Think of it as part of a next-generation way of finding the right employer.
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Y Combinator Start-Ups: Guess Which Will Be Worth A Billion

An online marketplace for hackers timed perfectly for Silicon Valley’s escalating Nuclear War for Talent. Interviewstreet challenges engineers to programming puzzles and real world problems. At the end of these challenges, engineers are asked which companies they want to work for. Should those companies hire them, Interviewstreet gets a nice $10,000 referral bonus. Facebook, Amazon and Zynga are already using the service and some 200 other tech companies are waiting to sign up. Interviewstreet claims it is already profitable and doubling revenues each month.
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YC-Funded Interview Street Streamlines The Search For Great Programmers

Talk to any tech company and they’ll tell you that hiring quality programmers is an incredibly difficult task — the smaller companies often have a hard time getting in front of the best candidates, and the large and ‘hot’ companies are inundated with applications, many of them sub par.
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