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9 Best Platforms For Finding Hackathons | Top Sites To Participate In Hackathons | Coding Competitions | By Amaze Courses

 

Preface

There’s no better way to test your coding skills and meet new talented programmers than participating in hackathons. Hackathons are a means of earning amazing swags, cash prizes, certificates, and sometimes your dream job offer. A coder must attend as many hackathons as he can to know where he actually stands. Almost every product-based company commence at least 1 hackathon every year for finding deserving candidates to work in or with their firm.

A lot of cool sites and platforms gives you the opportunity to participate in online hackathons and below are some of the hand-picked. These are one of the platforms where you not only can learn new programming languages and improve your DSA but can also participate in various contests.

So, scroll down and enjoy the blog.

 

1 DevPost


DevPost provides you a vast variety of both offline and online hackathons. It also keeps a record of your progress, for e.g., how many hackathons you’ve attended, how much you scored in a particular hackathon, among other things . You can view and learn from other’s projects, find a team for participating in a hackathon, and submit your work or projects. Sometimes, interviewers also ask for your DevPost to get a rough idea about your working skills, your past work, experience and many other things.

 Click here to participate in some fascinating hackathons.

2 Major League Hacking

 


MLH is one of the greatest platforms to find a hackathon. Every year, MLH coordinates more than 200 weekend-long hackathons. It has tech geeks, entrepreneurs, and next level coders in its community to help and provide guidance to fellow learners. Every year, more than 50k hackers take part in MLH hackathons to show their skills and win amazing prizes.  

Just click on “Attend a hackathon” and then chose any of the contest(s) you in which you wanna compete.

Click here to participate in some fascinating hackathons.

3 HackerEarth

 


HackerEarth is used by universities, individuals, and both small-scale and large-scale companies to sponsor hackathons and technical interviews. And these hackathon(s) extend from basic to advanced DSA prompts, from machine learning to AI, app development etc.

Some of the well-known sponsors are Amazon, HP, HCL, Barclays, Intel, Wipro, and Walmart Labs, among many others. HackerEarth is not just a hiring site but also a society of more than 4 million developers across the globe. In addition to that, it has organized over 1000 hackathons and more than 10,000 coding challenges.

Click here to participate in some fascinating hackathons.

4 LeetCode

 


The one thing that coders like the most about LeetCode is its monthly 30-day challenge which usually consists of its practice questions from DS and Algo. And there are about 1000+ questions, broadly divided into 3 categories: easy, medium, and hard. It also hosts weekly challenges which are about 90 minutes with the grand prize of 5000 LeetCode coins.

And when users clear some checkpoints in those challenges, are rewarded with points which can be redeemed in the “store” for flattering LeetCode t-shirt, premium subscription or time-travel ticket (allows user to solve previous question(s) in a challenge). Furthermore, users can test, debug and work on their projects using the “playground”.

Click here to participate in some fascinating hackathons.

5 InterviewBit

InterviewBit is an Indian training and learning platform that helps you find a tech job according to your potential. And it also has a company matching system, to fasten the process. It’s known for preparing students and working professionals with the help of frequently asked technical interview questions.

Have you heard about Scaler Academy? Well, guess what? Scaler Academy is a part of InterviewBit which provides you a fascinating 6-month course to make you job-ready. Moreover, its UI is pretty much similar to that of HackerRank and LeetCode. 

Click here to participate in some fascinating hackathons.

6 CodeForces

 


Codeforces is one of the most famous hackathons host across the world. It literally can provide you a wildcard entry to FAANG, but for that to happen you have to first ace some hackathons. At first you may find the challenges a bit hard but as you forge ahead, you’ll get used to them. Just like some other platforms, you can organize multiple hackathons here too. You can make it available for your friends, college, universities or everyone. Plus, contests are held regularly, so be active.

Click here to participate in some fascinating hackathons.

7 Code Chef

 

If you have heard about CodeForces, then you also have heard about CodeChef. A lot of students get confused; which one to opt? Well, there’s not any major differences, so don’t waste much time there, both are heavily recommended by competitive programmers.

In the first week of every month, CodeChef always organizes a coding competition and 2 to 10 other contests further ahead in the same month. It also hosts the ICPC (International Collegiate Programming Contest) regionals along with the IOI (International Olympiad in Informatics) for college students school students in India, respectively.

Click here to participate in some fascinating hackathons.

8 Facebook (Hackathon Hackers)

 

Every one knows about FB, right? You use it for chatting, posting thoughts, photos, memes and videos, etc. And spend hours on it every day, mostly for time-pass or entertainment. But did you know that the same FB can help you learn and take part in coding competitions? No, then continue reading.

Hackathon Hackers is a FB group with over 75K members where you get to know about major on-going and future hackathons, share your doubts and help others. Anyone can join it but has to obey some set of rules like no spamming, no giveaways, no meme sharing etc.

Click here to participate in some fascinating hackathons.

9 Hack Club

 

If you are a high school student and planning to make coding or software development as your career, then to help find your way through Hack Club has got your back. Basically, Hack Club is a non-profit global network of high school coding clubs.

You learn with your group as well as with other students from different nations, alike you who can’t wait for school teachers to solve their queries or organize any coding contest for them. Plus, there are weekly club meetings between the club leaders for about 1.5 hours (after school) to find new ways to make coding more interesting.       

Click here to participate in some fascinating hackathons.

Inference

If you want to improve your skills you must compete and know where you stand. All the top companies like Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Tesla etc. seeks for people who have worked on some project(s) along with some competitive programming experience. And hackathons can help you with both.

So, choose any of the above platforms you like and get started with it or them. 

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