Exasol Evergreen Talents Hunt Challenge
Location: Chennai, India
🚀 Why Exasol? Why Now?
Exasol is a high-performance analytics database built for data at scale, for the new AI era. At Exasol, our engineers solve hard problems across distributed systems, performance, reliability and real-world customer workloads needed for this new AI era.
The new AI era requires creators and builders who enjoy building robust technology and tackling complex technical challenges. We are building an evergreen talent community that enjoys doing so.
Here is an opportunity for you to be part of this evergreen talent community. Yes, it’s not a challenge for a job opening, but more a fodder for the hungry minds, a challenging teaser to the builder of the new AI era, that may lead to new opportunities in Exasol.
💼 How It Works?
Go through the OpenSource Challenge listed below
Show us how you think, build and solve it
Enjoy handsome rewards for best solutions
Get into our Exasol Evergreen talent community.
As part of Exasol Evergreen talent community, you will be prioritized for roles opening within Exasol. You will also be invited to participate in their meetups, conferences, webinars and any other events. You could be eligible for testing Exasol pre-releases
🎯The Challenge - Welcome to Exasol's Opensource Challenge
Pick a public open source project that is not hosted by Exasol
The project must have at least 100 stars on GitHub
Make it compatible with or add a feature for Exasol (e.g., by contributing a connector to the upstream project)
Add automatic integration tests
The upstream maintainers must accept and merge your contribution
Make sure you will be able to maintain it
Present the result by sending the link of your github repository to "[email protected]" and "[email protected]".
💡 Example Projects
The list below is just to show what kind of upstream projects we mean. Participants to not have to pick those. There are hundreds of potential projects out in the world.
GitHub - xo/usql: Universal command-line interface for SQL databases
GitHub - dbeaver/cloudbeaver: Cloud Database Manager
GitHub - kayak/pypika: PyPika is a python SQL query builder that exposes the full richness of the SQL language using a syntax that reflects the resulting query. PyPika excels at all sorts of SQL queries but is especially useful for data analysis.
✅ The Dos
Integrate with an existing open source project
Ensure it is getting accepted upstream
Make it maintainable. This is the most critical point
Even if you maintain an upstream project, you can participate
❌ The Donts
Don’t start a new open source project just to integrate Exasol
Maintainability should not require rewriting and more work
📊 Evaluation
If someone manages to fulfill all criteria of the challenge, we will do a code and documentation review, to gauge how well that was executed.
Criteria (in descending order of importance):
Security
User experience
Performance
Maintainability
Winners (multiple categories) will be declared post evaluation and prizes given.
📈 What’s in it for You
Completing a challenge gives you the opportunity to connect with Exasol, demonstrate your skills and ability to build new things, and become part of the broader global data community.
🎯 Ready to Launch Your Career with Exasol?
If you’re hungry to learn, unafraid to fail, and energized by the idea of helping the world’s leading organizations unlock the power of their data — we want to hear from you.
Apply now and be part of Exasol’s next chapter.
About Exasol
Take the next step in your career journey. Visit www.exasol.com to explore our current job openings, and follow us on LinkedIn to see what it is like to work at Exasol.
Exasol is a proud equal opportunities employer. We are committed to a diverse and inclusive working environment and therefore base all our employment selection decisions, within all aspects of our business, on experience, skill, and integrity. We strongly encourage applicants from all walks to life to apply for our positions, irrespective of age, sex, gender identity, disability, sexual orientation, race, religion, etc.
Skills Required
- Select an existing public open-source project not hosted by Exasol with at least 100 GitHub stars.
- Make the project compatible with Exasol or add an Exasol-related feature.
- Add automatic integration tests.
- Have the upstream maintainers accept and merge the contribution.
- Ensure the contribution is maintainable without unnecessary rewriting or additional work.
- Be able to maintain the contribution.
- Present the completed result.
What We Do
Exasol’s no-compromise analytics database is developed and driven by a dedicated, expert team that has never, and will never, compromise on quality. We’re redefining how businesses use data, without rip-and-replace disruption. Exasol is the only database to provide increased productivity, cost-savings and flexibility, without any trade-off, so businesses can act on real-time insights to drive competitive advantage. Hundreds of global brands like T-Mobile, Revolut, and Bumble rely on Exasol to innovate, grow and win. And we rely on them too. We do more than just listen to what our customers want from Exasol – we actively work with them to continually shape and improve our product.
