ABBYY Cup Heroes / ABBYY Blog

About two months ago, in our Hubroblog, we announced the ABBYY Cup Olympiad , and now we want to introduce you to its heroes and a short story about how we got to know them.

First, a few numbers. The Olympiad was attended by 176 people from Russia, Belarus, Ukraine and Kazakhstan. They were offered five tasks, for each of which it was possible to get up to 100 points. The winners were those who scored at least 485 points, 26 of them turned out to be. If you are interested in the conditions of the tasks or the results of the participants, you can familiarize yourself with them on the ABBYY website .

We invited all participants to visit us. In total, we visited 21 people and only 9 of them are students of Moscow universities. The guys from Minsk, Izhevsk, Saratov, Simferopol, Sevastopol, Ivanovo, Orel came to us. The longest way to our office was made by a participant from Tomsk (almost 3,000 km one way). Well, the real hero was a student at Kazan Federal University, who walked from the square of three stations (metro Komsomolskaya) to Dolgoprudny (the winners lived in the hostel of the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology). But this is more than 20 km! By the way, as you can see from the photographs, there was even a whole girl among the participants!

When the guests gathered, we asked them to share their impressions of the Olympics. Since the Olympiad was held in the midst of the session, we heard a lot of stories from the guys in the spirit: “I was preparing for the exam, but decided to take my mind off a bit, went to the Olympiad website and decided everything in a couple of hours.” There were other options: "Woke up on Sunday unexpectedly early, stumbled on the ABBYY Cup, quickly prompted everything and went to bed further." Well, the most pleasant response was gratitude for the fact that we gave the person "to remember the programmer-olympiad youth." In turn, we told the guys about our department at MIPT , about the company itself, about how we relax together, and taught us to play “Boom” - this board game has been especially popular with us in ABBYY recently.

The next day, an extensive educational program was waiting for our guests. The first point of this program was a meeting with Valery Evgenievich Krivtsov, dean of the faculty of innovations and high technologies at MIPT, on which our department is based. He told the guys a little about the physics department, about the faculty and about our department. On this, in fact, the Fiztekh part of the day ended and the office began.

We brought the guys to the office in Otradnoye, where the company’s vice president Aram Pakhchanyan ( aram_pakhchanian ) was already waiting for them . He told them about the activities of the company, high-tech developments, and priority research areas being conducted at ABBYY. The conversation took place in a rather informal atmosphere, which was indirectly confirmed by the ottomans on which the listeners were located :)

Then they were waiting for lunch, after which there was a short tour of the office.

Large balcony on the top floor of






the Marine



Hall Provence Hall



Children's Hall (you can draw on the left wall)



Compartments



Conference room The



guys saw how our programmers and linguists work, what we do to keep our brains from boiling during the day, and how we communicate with each other. After this, a meeting was held with our CEO Sergey Andreev. He told why ABBYY worked well, and dedicated our guests to some of the subtleties of developing our secret product, ABBYY Compreno, which was not so long ago.

For the winners of the ABBYY Cup, the results of the Olympiad were counted as entrance tests when selecting for the Department of Image Recognition and Text Processing at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology or during employment at ABBYY. And several guys are already successfully working in our company! And about the prospects of the ABBYY Cup, we can only say one thing: to be an Olympiad :) If you are interested in the ABBYY Cup, register here and we will send you an invitation to the next Olympiad. Good luck



Dmitry Gritsan
with the support of a group of educational projects