Bangalore: Today, companies are finding a new way to shortlist the candidates before they can call them for further screening- Hacking. There are competitions held in our country to filter the best programmer, reports TOI.

"We have really good coders in India. But they're just not presented well. It isn't only programmers from IITs and NITs who are good and who are hired by big companies like Google, Facebook and Amazon," says Sachin Gupta, co-founder of HackerEarth. The Bangalore based startup provides a platform for young programmers to showcase their talent and it also allows companies to hire coders with the skill sets they want.

HackerEarth presents a platform where companies can present a number of coding challenges that their coders can try out. The application then checks for the health of the code through various tools. Companies can also use the platform as software-as-a-service and post regular challenges. The platform can support about 12 programming languages including C, C++, Perl and Python.

"This way companies can see whose code is good and allows them to pre-screen candidates and shortlist a few candidates that they want, rather than going through hundreds of resumes coming from the human resources department," says Vivek, co-founder of HackerEarth.

Today, the programming platform has about 10,000 coders registered and on an average a challenge sees about 1,000 participants. Sachin and Vivek are developing the platform to include company pages and user profile pages.

The startup is planning a pan-India hacking challenge called "India Hacks". Coders from all over India will be given 24 hours to solve 5 to 6 problems. The event will give coders a chance to win a cash prize and the top ten programmers will be given a chance to visit the offices of Microsoft, Amazon, Intel, Flipkart, Walmart Labs and Sourcebits in Bangalore.

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