We recently covered what mind boggling questions do famous tech companies like Google, Microsoft, Amazon and Facebook ask during interviews. Now as the new year has arrived another challenge for these companies is to hire talent and if you are good at coding/programming, Interviewstreet is hosting an online coding challenge called CodeSprint beginning Friday, where 75 of the worlds best technology companies will be expecting you to showcase your self and get an interview call.

After you sign up you will receive questions to solve, these being from complex coding questions to algorithms for which you will get points and ranked up against many other in the leaderboard. Ending on Sunday evening the 8th of January 2012, if you are on the leaderboard, you ill be contacted by companies.

Facebook also launched the 2012 hackercup yesterday. So are you ready to code? Leave us your comments