Evergreen Talents Hunt Challenge

About the Challenge

Exasol Evergreen Talents Hunt Challenge is an opportunity to be part of the Exasol Evergreen talent community. This is not a direct job opening but a challenging teaser for builders of the new AI era, which may lead to new opportunities at Exasol.

How It Works

• Go through the OpenSource Challenge listed below.
• Show how you think, build, and solve it.
• Enjoy handsome rewards for best solutions.
• Get into the Exasol Evergreen talent community.
• As part of the community, you will be prioritized for roles opening within Exasol and invited to participate in meetups, conferences, webinars, and 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 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.

Example Projects

• 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 Don'ts

• Don’t start a new open source project just to integrate Exasol.
• Maintainability should not require rewriting and more work.

Evaluation

A code and documentation review will gauge how well the challenge was executed, based on the following 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 the challenge offers the opportunity to:

• Connect with Exasol.
• Demonstrate your skills and ability to build new things.
• 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

Exasol is a high-performance analytics database built for data at scale, for the new AI era. At Exasol, engineers solve hard problems across distributed systems, performance, reliability, and real-world customer workloads.

Take the next step in your career journey. Visit www.exasol.com to explore current job openings and follow Exasol on LinkedIn.