Brilliant is an online problem solving community for high school and college students with exceptional talent in math, science, and engineering. Our mission is to find these talented youth around the world and connect them to each other and to life-changing opportunities.
In our first year, Brilliant has attracted over 150,000 math and science enthusiasts from over 135 countries, and we are growing rapidly. To learn more about Brilliant's mission, watch CEO Sue Khim's TEDx talk (http://tedxtalks.ted.com/video/Scouting-for-Intellect-Sue-Kh...)
Hi I'm Dave Mattingly, the creator of this competition. A couple reasons:
1) The algorithms will be run against each other tournament-style. The interviews are a cheater-prevention mechanism. We wanted to make sure people's work is their own, since there are prizes and glory on the line.
2) One of the grand prizes is reserved for the best algorithm, and is purely objective. We are giving contestants clear rules to optimize around, and it's only fair to select a winner who wins based on that set of rules. But keeping some of the other prizes flexible lets us select other winners for other criteria of excellence as well. My larger goal with Brilliant is to create more meaningful problem solving challenges and assessments that reward creativity and critical and analytical ability, rather than rote learning. (Also discussed by the CEO in a recent TED talk: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnQCYZ8Oz8Q&feature=em-share_...)
[Update] I changed the wording on the site to make 1) more clear.
Brilliant - https://brilliant.org/ - Hiring senior full stack engineers in SF (remote OK, H1B OK)
- Fact: The US government spends .026% of its education budget on gifted programs.
- Fact: Most of the world's high aptitude students don’t have access to the resources and opportunities necessary to reach their full potential.
- Our mission: To democratize the way smart, driven high school and college students are identified and developed by making an intellectually challenging environment available online.
- What we do: Brilliant is an online problem solving community for high aptitude students in math, science, and computer science.
- Our vision for the future: To change the rules by which humans are valued and afforded access to opportunities by providing a platform of recognition that is meritocratic and transcends national and socioeconomic borders. Learn more about our vision by watching our TEDx talk (10 minutes) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnQCYZ8Oz8Q&feature=em-share_...
- Our growth: We have been online for about 8 months and have over 100,000 registered users from 135 countries, with the userbase doubling every 8 weeks.
Brilliant is an online problem solving community for high school and college students with exceptional talent in math, science, and engineering. Our mission is to find these talented youth around the world and connect them to each other and to life-changing opportunities.
In our first year, Brilliant has attracted over 150,000 math and science enthusiasts from over 135 countries, and we are growing rapidly. To learn more about Brilliant's mission, watch CEO Sue Khim's TEDx talk (http://tedxtalks.ted.com/video/Scouting-for-Intellect-Sue-Kh...)
Our open positions are:
* Software Engineer: Front-end (http://bit.ly/1aJFyro)
* Software Engineer: Backend (http://bit.ly/1g2i2tq)
* UI/UX Designer (http://bit.ly/18rjL7E)
* Data Scientist
Apply through our website at https://brilliant.org/about/, or by emailing [email protected].