As I said in another comment caring about producing good work is completely different about caring about every hyped up new trend that our industry comes up with (usually a rehash of something from 20 years ago).
As a manager I never do nor support hackatons except when the team themselves suggest it's the only way... but when I myself have to code or fix or debug something that needs grind time I still enjoy them. If I'm not getting payed enough to put that hours is another issue to discuss with my manager besides the pizza hackatons themselves.
In my younger days (I'm only 35 lol) I used to want to apply for jobs that said junk like "fast paced environment". Now I'm like screw that...
I mean every company wants you to work as hard as possible and turn things around...but now I feel the ones publish it want to put you through the ringer.
Re:Hire people who aren’t proven
by HillaryBriss on Thursday September 27, 2018 @11:07AM
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> "fast paced environment"
yes. and, if I were to pursue a job with such a description, I'd have only myself to blame when the insane conditions started.
Manager says "let's have a weekend pizza party hackathon!!!" and the old-timers are the first to recognize and decline the opportunity for unpaid overtime fixing bugs.