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Re:Things Hackers don’t tell you about Hackathons by pjmlp on Tuesday July 18, 2017 @03:47AM (#14794931)
The biggest issue I have with Hackathon culture is when it starts to plague the hiring processes or daily job activities and now we are all supposed to take part on them, by wannabe cool companies, just to get hired.
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Re:Things Hackers don’t tell you about Hackathons by TurboHaskal on Tuesday July 18, 2017 @04:30AM (#14795100)
This. I've seen hackatons being increasingly mentioned during the hiring process in the last few months.

Seeing 40-something adults talking about free beer and hackatons while walking on a floor full of nerf-bullets is beyond comical. I literally couldn't believe it if someone told me this ten years ago.

I miss working in finance.

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