I don’t code often these days; but when I do… good things
happen. A few months ago, I came across a tech challenge sponsored by Vistaprint
(now Cimpress). The challenge was to identify the most efficient shipping box
given a set of objects of various sizes. When I accidentally came across the
challenge, I really felt I could win. So, I started to plan out the algorithm and
started coding with whatever time I got on a daily basis.
Despite having limited time, I was really glad to have
completed the task on time. Then I had to wait about a month to know the
outcome after I submitted my code to Vistaprint. What was the outcome? No, I
didn’t win. Congratulations to Lars Szuwalski from Denmark for winning the
competition. But I certainly was happy to find out that I got honorable mention
along with 3 other folks. Congrats to them as well.
Here’s the link http://lifeinvistaprint.com/technology/vistaprint-tech-challenge-winner-2014/.
You can read about it.
