Participation Rules

Participation is restricted to legal EU/ EEA/ Swiss residents over the age of 18.

The determination of the winner(s) will be at IMC’s absolute discretion and is beyond any discussion.

Staff of IMC or IMC affiliates, staff of competitors of IMC or IMC affiliates and the organizations that contributed to the development of the IMC game are excluded from participation. IMC reserves the right to exclude entrants from participation without giving reasons, particularly in the event of failure to comply with the Terms and Conditions.

The IMC developer challenge is bound by Dutch law. The Dutch courts have exclusive jurisdiction to adjudicate upon disputes in connection with the IMC developer challenge unless IMC wishes to initiate legal proceedings in your home legal district.

IMC  assumes no responsibility or liability whatsoever for any consequences of any use or reliance upon the completeness or correctness of the information contained within the developer challenge.

You will be responsible for paying all potential taxes on the prizes.

Prizes

Prizes will be received by the winners of the 2nd round:

1. 1st Prize: MacBook Pro, Music or sporting event tickets PLUS a trip to the IMC Amsterdam office.
2. 2nd Prize: iPad, Music or sporting event tickets PLUS a trip to the IMC Amsterdam office.
3. 3rd – 5th prize: Music or sporting event tickets PLUS a trip to the IMC Amsterdam office.

Scoring rules

1. There are 3 tasks to solve. Participant's score is the sum of results for all tasks.
2. Each task is score with result from 0 to 100 points.
3. Participant's score is the sum of results for all tasks.
4. Participants are ranked according to their scores. In case of a draw, earliest submission takes precedence.

Challenge rules

1. The 1st round of the challenge starts Friday, November 18th at 5 a.m. UTC
2. The 1st round of the challenge ends Sunday, November 27th at 10 p.m. UTC
3. The 2nd round of the challenge starts Saturday, December 3rd at 5:00 a.m. UTC
4. The 2nd round of the challenge ends Sunday, December 4th at 10:00 p.m. UTC
5. All solutions must be submitted before the challenge closes.
6. Challenge consists of two parts: coding and multiple choice questions.
7. Following programming languages will be available during the challenge: C, C#, C++, Go, Java, JavaScript, Objective-C, PHP, Pascal, Perl, Python, Ruby, Scala, Swift or VB.NET
8. Once you have started the challenge, you have max. 145 minutes to submit your solution.
9. You can attempt the challenge at most 5 times.
10. Each subsequent attempt should use the same personal data (name and email).
11. Each subsequent attempt cancel all previous submissions, so only the last attempt is taken into the account.
12. After each attempt you will receive feedback with your score result.
13. All tasks have to be solved single-handedly. Any cases of plagiarism will result in disqualification.
14. In case of ambiguity Codility arbiter decision is final.
15. At least 10% of the participants of the first round passes to the second round.

Before you begin

1. Take a demo test to familiarize yourself with Codility coding environment.
2. Remember to check if your solutions consider all possible corner cases and handle large input efficiently.
3. Please check our Codility frequently asked questions.