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Call for Problem Setting at HackerEarth
By HackerearthAdmin, 23 months ago, In English

Hi everyone,

We're excited to invite you all to be a problem setter on HackerEarth for our monthy rated contests.

The process for a submitted problem idea being used in our contests is:

  • Submit your problem idea here
  • The contest admins will review the submitted ideas.
  • If your problem is selected for a contest, the contest admins will reach out and ask you to prepare test cases and an editorial for the same.
  • Your problem will go live!

We have three algorithmic contest every month, here is the table:

Contest Number of problems Approximate Difficulty Length Comments
Easy 6 Like Codeforces Div. 2 3 Hours
DS and Algo challenge 3 Easy to Medium-Hard 1.5 Hour
Circuits 8 One approximate problem and 7 algorithmic, from Very-Easy to Hard 7 Days More educational, less competitive, we could use classical problems

The rate card for setter compensation are as follows :

DSA and Easy Circuits

Currently we don't have enough medium/hard problems, so if you propose a nice problem it may be selected for the upcoming contests.

For further clarifications please feel free to contact support@hackerearth.com

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23 months ago, # |
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Any intern opening for problem setter and tester for the various Hackerearth hiring contests.

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Hi everyone, we're still looking for more medium/hard problems. If you have good problems to propose please feel free to fill up the above mentioned form

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    16 months ago, # ^ |
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    this isn’t really relevant but last time i took part in a contest a few problems were literally ripped straight off codeforces (i literally copied and pasted my codeforces submission) so please improve your problem stealing measures so you don’t waste money

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      16 months ago, # ^ |
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      Which contest? I can't see any recent contests.

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      16 months ago, # ^ |
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      Sorry, why is this not relevant ?

      We're mostly focussing on giving different setters a chance in every contest and sometimes people do steal used contest problems which is not always easy to track. But yes, once we realise that a setter STOLE a problem we do penalise them.

      So, you need original problems but don't want us inviting setters who would propose them ?

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        16 months ago, # ^ |
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        I never discouraged paying setters to propose problems, but when you put money on the line someone's probably going to take shortcuts.

        The problem I was thinking of is Segment Cost which is ripped right off Sheikh.

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