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by al_borland
415 days ago
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These sound pretty productive, which is nice. I’d love for me team to have hackathons weeks to fix annoying stuff. My company puts on an internal hackathons, but it feels fake. Looking at the winners, it seemed like a team had been working on the project for months, and the hackathon was the company’s way of marketing it internally before launch. There is precedence for this kind of action, which is why I’m skeptical of the legitimacy of the hackathons. There was a video contest and the top 3 were shown at a town hall. My team was one of the top 3. I had never seen the video and had no idea about this contest, nor had my boss (Sr Dir), nor had his boss (VP). As far as we could tell, some video production team was tapped to hack together a video in 30 minutes, they threw our name on it, and shipped it. I don’t trust much after that. |
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It's worth noting that this was a bottom-up initiative, and management got on board after it was shown to be successful and morale boosting. ICs can lead themselves sometimes.