The stages

Stage 1 - General CS quiz

This stage was a general CS quiz:

• We were given 2 hours to solve 30 questions.
• 3879 contestants attempted the quiz.
• It tested our knowledge on web fundamentals, and general CS knowledge.

Stage 2 - Track based task

The competition was divided into frontend, backend, and mobile development.

I picked frontend. The task can be viewed here.

In short, we were tasked to build a resume builder in pure JS/CSS following strict design guidelines and prewritten playwright tests.

I got a 98.5/100 score with a 71/100 passing score making me top 6 in this stage of the competition.

Stage 3.1 - Individual project

I was given the task to build a habit tracker. The task can be viewed here.

In short, it had to implement gamification, add social mechanics. I was one of the few that hooked this up to a backend (Supabase).

This allowed me to have actual friend requests, an actual library of popular habits, and actual profile pages with results.

You can check out the final result here.

Stage 3.2 - Team hackathon

This was the only part of the competition that was hosted at a physical location. It was a 4 day hackathon, with multiple cases that could be picked.

My team picked a case about optimizing feedback collection for businesses.

We developed a prototype: it had a dashboard for businesses to manage questions, and analyze feedback. We even integrated it with a LLM called YandexGPT that would analyze questions and feedback for those questions and suggest how to improve metrics.

We had to present the result of our 4 days of work to 30 judges from the industry.

The results

We were judged by a cobination of scores for the individual project, and team hackathon.

The closing ceremondy was held at the Culture Center of HSE.