July 14, 2014: Maninderpal Singh and Persistent Systems win TechGig’s 1st National Code Gladiators Contest
Revealing Hidden Talent
So, do you know the best coders in your company? And which companies have the best coder? Now 64 companies do! Thanks to the recently concluded TechGig Code Gladiators Championships. – the national coding contest that championed the undiscovered gems who would otherwise have been relegated to the background – because they weren’t from a Big MNC or hadn’t studied at an IIT.
TechGig was able to reveal the Best Coders based on Real Competency, who may have been overlooked due to a lack of opportunity. In a clear meritocratic process, irrespective of rank, degree, position or stature – Two months of battles amongst 64 companies and 36,000 coders for India’s Best Coder and Coding Company finally culminated in the victories of Maninderpal Singh and Persistent Systems winning the 1st National TechGig Code Gladiators Contest.
Before winning, Maninderpal Singh was just one of the 36,000 coders across India who logged into TechGig.com with just a dream in their hearts – to compete and be recognized for their talent and skill in coding – and now he stands at the pinnacle of achievement as India’s Best Coder. The other victors were Dilip Singh & Sonu Singal who came in second and third respectively.
Receiving his Rs.1.5 Lakh Cash Prize Award, Maninderpal said, “It feels amazing to have won India’s Best Code Gladiator award. It was an awesome feeling watching CTO’s of famous IT companies and hundreds of coders come together with varied experience to compete. I would like to thank my company Drishti Soft and praise TechGig for organising such a well-managed event that helped coders realise their potential and gain exposure in the IT industry.”
Winning Contestants
Champion Maninderpal Singh Rs.150,000
http://www.techgig.com/maninderpalsingh5
1st Runners-Up Dilip Singh Rs.100,000
http://www.techgig.com/dilipsingh14
2nd Runners-Up Sonu Singal Rs. 50,000
http://www.techgig.com/sonusingal
3rd Runners-Up Mayank Rs. 30,000
http://www.techgig.com/mayank27
4th Runners-Up Saurabh Pandey Rs. 20,000
http://www.techgig.com/saurabhpandey23
The BIGGEST isn’t Necessarily the Best
News of the IT Industry seldom highlights anyone other than the big giant MNCs. But it was Persistent Systems, a relatively smaller company, which rose to the challenge and proved to the nation that they were truly India’s Coding Power House. From the Best Coders based on the combined performance of all the participants from each of the 64 companies that participated – Persistent Systems was declared “The Company with the Best Coders”.
Speaking of the Code Gladiators contest – Mr. Nitinchandra Shende, Head of Talent Management at Persistent Systems said, “ The biggest benefit of Code Gladiators is assessments – competition is a way of life. And employees face it from time to time. That keeps up the excitement. Code Gladiators has raised this bar and taken this to the next level of excitement. As an organization the event helped us both in our internal engagement as well as benchmarking ourselves against the peer group companies. I would like to acknowledge tremendous effort put in by organizer and their teams. This is certainly a good beginning. In coming years, I would like to see Code Gladiators evolves as the de-facto platform for techies across the globe to compete for the shield.”
Winning Companies
Champion Persistent Systems India’s Coding Power House
1st Runners-Up Talentica Software India’s Coding Centers of Excellence
2nd Runners-Up Akamai Technologies India’s Coding Centers of Excellence
3rd Runners-Up Steria India India’s Coding Centers of Excellence
4th Runners-Up Synechron Technologies India’s Coding Centers of Excellence
Meritocracy at its Best
Avnish Anand of TechGig.com, the organizers of Code Gladiators said, “The credit for the success of this inaugural event goes entirely to the 36,000 participants and 64 companies, that waged war and battled each other over two months of grueling code contests. Their faith and trust in TechGig.com is what made Code Gladiators such a huge achievement.”
“We have received tremendous feedback and requests for participation from those who missed out on this 2 month championship, we regularly run TechGig Coding Contests and are currently running nationwide online coding contests for all working professionals, details are available on our site.” added Anand.
About Code Gladiators: TechGig has been a pioneer in ranking and rating The Best Programmers and The Best IT Companies across India – through technology related competitions for internal employees, company-sponsored contests for talent engagement and various employer-branding activities. Code Gladiators combines all these activities and takes the scale to an entirely different level – one where employees from companies across India are involved at the same time. Code Gladiators is a corporate battle – the best talent from IT companies will battle it out to a fight to the finish. This National Level competition showcases the company with the best coders and identifies the Best Coder in the Country.
For more information please visit – http://www.techgig.com/codecontest