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About AMS

The company behind Access

Technical ability,
made visible.

AMS is a company that identifies and measures exceptional technical ability.

We build rigorous competitions, assessments and real-world challenges for students and engineers. Through AMS Derive, AMS Ascent and AMS Access, we give technical work a place to be seen and assessed.

Why we exist

What can someone do
with a difficult problem?

A résumé can tell you where someone has worked or studied. Understanding how they reason through an unfamiliar problem, find a bug or make a technical trade-off takes a closer look at their work.

For participants, that means a chance to show strengths a résumé may leave out. For technical teams, it means more context for evaluating the skills that matter to their work. AMS builds the challenges and assessment tools that support this closer look.

Our approach

Start with the work.
Understand what it shows.

  1. Set a meaningful challenge.

    We design challenges that call for mathematical reasoning, debugging or systems judgment, with clear constraints that give the work context.

  2. Examine the work.

    We look at what participants produce and how they perform against the challenge. The task and its constraints give meaning to the result.

  3. Put performance in context.

    Our aim is to help participants understand their strengths and help technical teams judge what that performance says about the skills they need.

Programs & infrastructure

Two programs.
The infrastructure behind them.

Derive focuses on quantitative reasoning. Ascent focuses on systems engineering. Access supports assessment delivery and review.

01 / Quantitative reasoning

AMS Derive

Our quantitative problem-solving program brings together probability, algorithms and mathematical reasoning, with applications in quantitative finance and research.

Mathematics · Probability · Algorithms
02 / Systems engineering

AMS Ascent

Our C++, systems and performance-engineering program focuses on the decisions behind working software: finding faults, improving performance and preserving correctness.

C++ · Systems · Performance
03 / Assessment infrastructure

AMS Access

Our assessment infrastructure connects the steps of a coding assessment: organizers set up the round, candidates prepare and work in the app, and reviewers examine submissions.

See how Access works

For participants

Give your skills
a harder problem.

Take on demanding problems in mathematics or systems engineering. Use the challenge to test your understanding, find areas to improve and show what you can do.

For technical teams

Look closer at
the skills you need.

A role may call for mathematical reasoning, careful debugging or sound systems judgment. Relevant technical work gives you something concrete to examine alongside a candidate’s experience.

Our direction

A clearer picture,
built over time.

Our long-term aim is for performance across challenges to build a useful record of someone’s technical strengths. We are working toward that through our programs and assessment infrastructure.

Talk with AMS

Tell us what you have in mind.

General enquiries

Ask about AMS, taking part in a program or using Access. Tell us what you want to do and where you need help.

team@amshq.in

Partners & sponsorships

For existing partners and sponsorship enquiries. Include your organization, the program you have in mind and what you hope to achieve.

partners@amshq.in