Is it "Survivor?" Perhaps it's "The Apprentice." It's certainly not "The Amazing Race." Maybe it's "My Programmer Rules."
With plans to hire 20 additional engineers to its existing 100-strong team in Sydney, Australian e-commerce startup Bigcommerce - the eStore supply and consult company has partnered with the Codehire Cup 2013 in the hope to find that expertise.
"By using a coding contest to find the best talent, we'll be able to quickly spot the engineers with the X factor -- the 5X programmers who are 5 times more productive than the average engineer," Said Soren Harner, VP Engineering at BigCommerce. "They are the polyglot master craftspeople who want to create something brilliant. More specifically, we're looking to find great talent in a range of languages including Clojure, Ruby, CoffeeScript, and PHP."
Bigcommerce co-founder Mitchell Harper said the company intends to aggressively pursue local talent in the coming months and years, and will use the Codehire Cup to help recruit at least 20 top software engineers.
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"Our talented engineering team in Sydney has been the driver of constant innovation in the e-commerce platform, which has laid the foundation for our explosive growth."
Codehire is a coding community and skills testing platform and uses events such as this to identify the best talent in the country. With over 700 programmers competing for cash, prizes and the 2013 cup, there's sure to be plenty on talent on offer for BigCommerce's recruiters.
The competition started last Saturday (sorry, if you're not already in it, you'll have to wait for next year) with development speed being the primary success factor. The next round, on June 15th will focus on code quality and the entrant's overall approach to the given problem.
The event will finish with a live event on July 13th. Employment offers will probably be made soon after.
