Finding a job in a large technology corporation is almost always stressful for the job seeker. Therefore, employers are looking for non-standard ways. For example, they create browser games. And Sber this year launched a whole competition for developers — SberCoders!
They took the cult game Mortal Kombat as a basis: they drew eight maps and characters in the style of the legendary fighting game, added Easter eggs, and replaced the famous Fatality
16 thousand coders participated in the tournament, most of them wrote code in C++ and Python. About 40% of the coders were middle level, the rest were juniors. The best even received offers.
For more information about the creation of the game, super-talented participants and finishing off with an ATM, see the material.