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Boosting Career Opportunities For Engineers Through E-School Competitions

Shreeya Thakur
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Table of content: 

  • E-school competitions - gateway to better career opportunities for engineers
  • Hiring Challenges
  • Innovation Challenges
  • Quizzes
  • Case Study competitions
  • Hackathons
  • How do E-school competitions provide dream career opportunities for engineers?
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As the world experiences the fourth industrial revolution, engineering is now at par with management and is playing a big role in leading any company towards success. Keeping this in view, companies today are going all out to get the best engineering talent on board and also nurture and encourage the creative skills of young professionals. How? By #GoingBeyondResume and switching to methods such as hiring challenges, coding competitions, case challenges, competitions, etc.  Let’s take a look at these competitions. 

E-school competitions - gateway to better career opportunities for engineers

Competitions and hackathons provide a myriad of career opportunities for engineering students and early-career engineers to showcase the best of their talents. Below are the types of competitions for Engineers that are all the rage amongst the community. 

1. Hiring Challenges

These multi-stage competitions are designed to hire the best candidates from across the country. Since it makes the process more efficient and quick, this mode is being adopted by both start-ups and established firms. The top performers get cash prizes along with PPIs, internships or direct job offers too. 

Here is a list of hiring challenges open to Engineering students and working professionals. While most of these competitions are open to Indian students, Flipkart GRiD is open to campuses in the USA too! Take a look.

Hiring Challenges

Juspay Hiring Challenge 2024

FAME 4.0: Open Innovation Challenge

Tata Imagination Challenge 2024

Meesho DICE Challenge

TVS Credit E.P.I.C Season 6.0

Flipkart GRiD 6.0

Johnson & Johnson Imagivators Season 3

Walmart Sparkplug 2024

Accenture Strategy Connect Season 3

CreaTech 2024 by L&T

Myntra HackerRamp: WeForShe 2024

The American Express Campus Super Bowl Challenge 2024

EY Techathon 4.0

DealShare CodeForBillion

FedEx India COE Talent Hub 2022

Optum Code Combat

Optum Stratethon Season 4

Accenture Innovation Challenge 2023

L'Oréal Sustainability Challenge 2023

Juspay Challenge 2

Walmart CodeHers

Instabase Encipher

Axeno Axenothon

Intellect Global Hackathon

Innovaccer's HackerCamp'22 powered by Microsoft

More Retail: Qode the Future Challenge

CRAZE-A-THON: Ather Hiring Challenge

Hero Campus Challenge Season 9

Lowe's House of Code

Unstop's Creative Hackathon

Maruti Suzuki XCELerate

Flipkart Runway: Season 4

Flipkart <Girls Wanna Code/> 5.0

Accenture Hack Diva

Namma Yatri Open Mobility Challenge

Code for GovTech 2023

Tally CodeBrewers

Contentstack Techsurf 2023

HackRx 4.0

TezAsia Hackathon 3.0

Tata Elxsi TELIPORT

Coca-Cola Disrupt Season 3

Xiaomi Ode2Code 3.0

Destination Dr. Reddy's

Lighthouse Learning Hackathon 2022

J&J Crackathon

FAME 3.0: Safe Highways Challenge

Samsung E.D.G.E. 8.0

Mondelez TechEve

i.mobilothon 3.0 by Volkswagen Group Technology Solutions India

Do you know? 

Walmart hired 165 female coders through Walmart CodeHers 2021 and raised the share of female workers in the Walmart Global India Tech team from 35% to 56%! 

2. Innovation Challenges

If your ideas can solve complex business problems, innovation challenges are your cup of tea! These competitions help students to showcase their tinkering ideas while they get mentored by the who’s who of the industry apart from winning amazing prizes. Have a look at some of the competitions. 

Innovation Challenges

RuPay ON-THE-GO Designathon

Tata Imagination Challenge 2024

KPMG Ideation Challenge (KIC)

Hero CoLabs Design Challenge 5.0

Hero CoLabs App Challenge 2.0

Hero CoLabs eXPerience Challenge

Masters' Union Emerging Business Leaders

Mondelez Mavins

Swiss Re Reimagine

Tata Steel TomorrowLab 2023 (Student Track)

3. Quizzes

For those who love to don their ‘know-it-all’ hats, quizzes are the go-to events. Winners get cash prizes, goodies, and more! Following are some quiz competitions where you can put your knowledge to the test. 

Quizzes

Johnson & Johnson Imagivators Season 3

Rajgiri Indo-Pacific Quiz Competition

Accenture Strategy Connect Season 3

Reliance Quiz-a-thon

Unstop Online Quizzing Festival

IMT Ghaziabad Inquisitive

KIRIT 3.0

Flipkart Runway: Season 4

Tata Crucible Campus Quiz 2024

TOEFL India Championship

4. Case Study competitions

Usually conducted as team events, case study competitions give students the opportunity to provide working solutions to real-life problems that the company or the industry is currently facing. The competition poses a problem statement or a case to the participating teams and they have to frame a strategy to solve the issue. Here are a few of the case study competitions for engineering students: 

Case Study Competitions

Luminous Techno-X

Providence LEAP Ideathon

Asian Paints Alchemy 2024

Juspay Hiring Challenge 2024

Unstop's Creative Hackathon

Meesho DICE Challenge

FAME 4.0: Open Innovation Challenge

Destination Dr. Reddy's

TVS Credit E.P.I.C Season 6.0

Flipkart GRiD 6.0

The American Express Campus Super Bowl Challenge 2024

Myntra HackerRamp: WeForShe 2024

FedEx India COE Talent Hub 2022

CreaTech 2024 by L&T

L'Oréal Sustainability Challenge 2023

Samsung E.D.G.E. 8.0

Contentstack Techsurf 2023

Hero Campus Challenge Season 9

Tata Steel TomorrowLab 2023 (Student Track)

KIRIT 3.0

boAt Wavemaker's Challenge Season 1

Maruti Suzuki XCELerate

Fame in a Flash: A Campus Marketeer Program

EY Techathon 4.0

Coca-Cola Disrupt Season 3

NationBuilding Case Study Competition

J&J Crackathon

FAME 3.0: Safe Highways Challenge

Tata Elxsi TELIPORT

RateGain Code Rangers - Early Careers (0-3 Years)

5. Hackathons

These competitions are designed for passionate professionals or tech-savvy students who can hack their way through to find a unique solution to a problem. Here is a list of all the hackathons. Watch out for hackathons that also offer Pre-Placement Interviews and/or job offers to the winning/deserving teams. 

Hackathons

Juspay Hiring Challenge 2024

Meesho DICE Challenge

TVS Credit E.P.I.C Season 6.0

Flipkart GRiD 6.0

Spark-Wars 3.0

Woodpecker's Hackathon

Myntra HackerRamp: WeForShe 2024

SUSTAIN-A-THON 2024: Sustainability Hackathon by Indian Oil Corporation Ltd.

HackOn With Amazon - Season 4

i.mobilothon 3.0 by Volkswagen Group Technology Solutions India

The American Express Campus Super Bowl

Mondelez TechEve

Codegoda 2023

Flipkart <Girls Wanna Code/> 5.0

Code for GovTech 2023

Xiaomi Ode2Code 3.0

The ReneVerse Borderless Gaming Hackathon

Namma Yatri Open Mobility Challenge

Unstop Online Hackathon Festival

ServiceNow Women Code to Win 2024 - India

Tata Crucible Hackathon 2022

Walmart Sparkplug 2024

BUIDL for Web3 Hackathon (2022)

Optum Stratethon Season 4

DealShare CodeForBillion

Lighthouse Learning Hackathon

Myntra Hackerramp

Philips Code to care

Publicis Sapient Jumpstart

AB InBev Maverick 2.0

Optum Stratethon

Uber HackTag

Kotak REIGN

Tally CodeBrewers

TezAsia Hackathon 3.0

HackRx 4.0

TechnoThrive By Yash Technologies

Awiros X Intel App-A-Thon 2.0

RateGain Code Rangers - Early Careers (0-3 Years)

 

Also read: Upcoming Hackathons 2022 Every Engineering Student Must Know!

How do E-school competitions provide dream career opportunities for engineers?

Engineering is all about ‘problem-solving through technology and enhancing one’s intellect’. So whether it is creating out of thin air through coding or building mega machines, a true engineer loves to problem solve. However, due to various factors, many engineers land jobs that fail to provide career satisfaction. This calls for a change in the recruitment landscape and hackathons, hiring challenges, case study competitions, and challenges have certainly come to the rescue. They prove to be helpful in the following ways:

  • Hiring objectively and quickly: The new hiring strategies steer away from unconscious bias. Thanks to the open competitions, the participants are assessed purely on merit. So whether you are from a top college or from a tier 3 or tier 4 institute, if you have the right talent, you get to compete on equal grounds.  Also, these methods speed up the hiring process. While the traditional route entailed screening of resumes and candidates’ endless waiting period to get a call back from the HR manager, the ‘new-age’ hiring is quick, transparent, and also cost-effective for the company.
  • Tapping into the unreachable talent: Methods such as online coding competitions, hackathons, case challenges, etc. democratize the hiring process making them accessible to job-seekers from any nook and corner of the country. Since most of the competitions are conducted online, all you have to have is a screen and an internet connection and you are all set to participate. 

So get ready to rack your brain and reap the benefits of all the amazing online coding competitions, case challenges and hackathons lined up for you. Because it's time to show your mettle to the world!

Edited by
Shreeya Thakur
Sr. Associate Content Writer at Unstop

I am a biotechnologist-turned-content writer and try to add an element of science in my writings wherever possible. Apart from writing, I like to cook, read and travel.

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