[BowBun]

Have you been to one? In my experience it's discouraged to do actual work so that you can focus on the goals at hand. Also in my experience, a decent company will hold it during business hours/week. Or at least overlap that time.

[reidjs]

Yea I’ve been on a few. Basically I felt that I got taken hostage (no key to the airbnb, no car rental budget, basically forced to stay with colleagues at all times). Meetings all day about company direction and architecture, then our normal programming work all night Hackathon style. I need time away from my coworkers to write productive code and I think other engineers do too.

[standardUser]

The "the goals at hand" are also work, even if it's not normal day-to-day work.

There is no scenario where a work event of any kind is not work.