Indeed has been hosting university programming contests for the last seven years.  It has been a great way for us to raise our profile in the key schools we recruit from, as well as identifying future hires.

Indeed recently took its contest to a new level by hosting a duel between University of Texas at Austin (UT) and University of Illinois.  Contestants battled it out for four hours online, keeping up with results using Indeed’s dynamic online scoreboard. In total, 58 contestants were involved from both schools.  Most are currently undergraduates enrolled in Computer Science and Computer Engineering.

The exercises for the contest were developed in-house by Indeed software engineers, who include both recent UT graduates and previous contestants from the renowned global programming contest ACM-ICPC World.  Contestants were presented with a set of logic and mathematical problems and were challenged to write computer programs in Java, C++, Python, or PHP capable of solving each problem. The winners were the programmers who were able to solve the most problems in the least amount of time.

The overall winner for the night, in a nail-biting finish, was University of Illinois, but the highest-scoring contestants from each school went home with desirable prizes including Apple iPads, Amazon Kindle Fires and gift cards.  We’re also very excited to share the news that five of the contestants will be joining the Indeed team at the end of the 2012 school year.

Are you a software geek interested in working at Indeed?  We are hiring!

If you are a software developer who’s passionate about building innovative products that scale to tens of millions of pageviews a day, Indeed is looking for you.  Indeed offers smart developers a complex development ecosystem with short release cycles. Every week sees the new release of multiple products that meet the growing needs of millions of jobseekers worldwide. Apply today at https://indeed.jobs

SilkRoad recently released data that shows Indeed provides more hires than any other external recruitment source. The complete findings are available in Recruitment Marketing Effectiveness: Meaningful Metrics Straight From the Source, a report on the performance of recruitment marketing sources that is based on objective primary data.

The scope of research is impressive, consisting of 2011 calendar year hiring data from 700+ employers (including 10 of the Fortune 500 and 50 of the Fortune 1000):

• 222,308 job postings
• 9.3 million applicants
• 147,440 interviews
• 94,155 hires

Automated source tracking provides the most accurate metrics for determining recruitment marketing return on investment. Because this report is based on automated source tracking data pulled from the SilkRoad OpenHire Applicant Tracking System (ATS), it is the most accurate and comprehensive research available on the effectiveness of recruitment marketing.

Among the report’s most compelling findings:

• Employers say interviews and hires are the most important measures in determining the quality of a recruitment marketing source.

• Indeed provides employers with more interviews and hires than any other external recruitment source:

• Indeed provides employers with more interviews than any other site:

• Indeed provides employers with more hires than any other site:

• Indeed is the top external source of hire in 6 of 7 major job categories:

Administrative Services, Customer Service, Engineering, Financial Services, Healthcare, and Information Technology.

We encourage you to read SilkRoad’s report to get the latest data on recruitment source effectiveness and insights on measuring the results of your recruiting strategy.

Visit ads.indeed.com or contact us today to maximize the impact of your recruitment advertising.