Hello everyone!
I invite you to take part in Order Capital Round 1 (Codeforces Round 1038, Div. 1 + Div. 2).
My name is Igor Pyshkin. Throughout my academic career, I participated in a lot of programming and math competitions: I am the 2016 ACM ICPC World Champion and competed in the onsite finals of the Facebook Hacker Cup, Google Code Jam, and TopCoder Open. After completing my degree, I transitioned into a new field — high-frequency trading (HFT).
Four years ago, I founded my own HFT fund — Order Capital. Since then together with my colleagues I have been working really hard to reach the highest levels of the HFT industry. Launching this contest on Codeforces is quite special to me, as it is our first contest on the platform as a company.
I would like to thank the Codeforces team and everyone involved in the round preparation. Our internal testing team found the problems quite interesting, I hope you will enjoy them too.
We’ve prepared some cool prizes:
- Top participants will receive cash awards.
- Plus, several random participants will get surprise merch boxes.
Below you will find information about Order Capital. We are hiring and would be happy to discuss opportunities for professional growth with you.
Based in Dubai
We’re a place where:
- Olympiad minds feel at home
- Engineering culture > corporate process
- Big ideas are valued and debated
We’re looking for:
- C++ Engineers (low-latency, high-performance)
- ML Infra Engineers (Python / C++)
- Research Engineers with strong algorithmic skills
We loved working on this round and hope it’s fun for you. If you’re curious about what we do at Order Capital — we’d love to hear from you! Just fill out a quick form.
This is our debut contest — and we’ve worked hard to make it fun, fair, and memorable. We hope you’ll enjoy the experience!
GL & HF!
what are the salaries
bro went straight to the point
Please contact our company HR department to discuss the matter in a more private way. We will be happy to discuss terms for a specific position.
I do not mean to be offensive, but it is not cool when employers aren't upfront about salaries. Furthermore, the latter two points under "We're a place where:" are kind of generic. All the other companies say similar things. Of course you can do whatever you want, but I really think that more thought could've gone into the post.
We are upfront about our salary range, but salaries are different depending on the position, seniority, skills, etc.
will this round be rated or not?
rated offcourse
haven't been on cf for too long. are these kinda hirings the usual or out of the ordinary?
I've seen such contests several times this year.
ok
as a not tester I can confirm that you visited the wrong announcement to make that joke
You'll never know if I tested this round XD.
2016 ACM ICPC World Champion orz
https://codeforces.me/team/27883
The team must be created by his chassmates.
OHHH, this team must been created by his haters.Anyways, I found out that they're G *y too.
Ok boomer
I know that it is an unpopular opinion, but I feel a bit sad every time I see HFT advertising. A lot of smart people are involved in the sphere that produces absolutely nothing
Can you please explain your opinion a little bit more?
People in hft produce nothing but money
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Just like competitive programming!
except of getting paid
Think of it as a funding mechanism for competitive programming. I do hope competitive programming professionally even pays 1/10 of that.
Any suggestions if anyone wants to start HFT? Or is it much more important he/she should be very, very good in competitive programming before starting HFT?
competitive programming != programming, so it is not important at all for getting job. Solving problems is for fun!
learn something more interesting (and relevant): computer architecture, operating system internals, compilers, networks, concurrency, distributed systems and so on, if you want to get a job.
actually I greatly appreciate having small spreads and low price impact, thank you quants
I'm high school can I practice in this contest
Yes, of course
wow, hope to become lucky and get
merch boxesalso the OP's intro section is so legendary.
I hope this round of the competition will be completed perfectly,the questions are of high quality and the competition is fair. This is the first time I've seen this type of competition on CodeForces. I'm also preparing to sign up for this competition. Wish me and all the contester good luck.
Please forgive my poor English
what is the points distribution for this contest???
When does the contest start!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!