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CodinGame

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Type
  
Online coding platform

Area served
  
Worldwide

Website
  
codingame.com

Founded
  
2012

Number of employees
  
20

Key people
  
CodinGame / Frédéric Desmoulins (CEO), Nicolas Antoniazzi (CTO), Aude Barral (CMO)

CodinGame is a technology company editing an online platform for developers, allowing them to play with programming with increasingly difficult puzzles, to learn to code better with an online programming application supporting twenty-five programming languages, and to compete in multiplayer programming contests involving timed artificial intelligence, or code golf challenges.

CodinGame also serves as a recruiting platform, allowing developers to get noticed by companies based on their performance on the contests.

Activity

CodinGame's business model is based on sponsoring by companies wanting to get in touch with developers. CodinGame helps these company to recruit developers through worldwide contests hosted every three months, or private hackathons. The startup was also seeded through several fundraisings in 2013 and 2015.

CodinGame for Work sells also turnkey tech screening solution to help companies assess the level of their programmer candidates through coding tests.

Available programming languages for solving puzzles or taking part in contests are: C, C++, C#, Bash, Clojure, Dart, F#, Go, Groovy, Java, JavaScript, Haskell, Lua, Objective-C, OCaml, Pascal, Perl, PHP, Python (v2 and v3), Ruby, Rust, Scala, Swift and Visual Basic .NET.

References

CodinGame Wikipedia