Corporate Strategist

“Babe, sorry I couldn’t come to our date, had a hackathon” 
 “What did you make?” 
 “…”

Founder

Also have things like this in my current Co. (not Zomato), but folks who participate are compensated for the overtime, and there are actual prizes as well (basically not free labour by any means), so it is great if done the right way 
 Overall quite fun to have that hackathon mode jolt every once in a while :)

Are people creating something different from day-to-day work? If not, those prizes/overtime must be categorised under cheap labour only.

Product Manager

No point of working on Weekends or making someone work on weekends. You should see how people from other countries enjoy their life on weekends and celebrate their vacations. And here are people like us, who celebrate work on weekends. 
 This shouldn't be normalised at any cost. These founders need to understand that. Even if you compensate, that's not more than the health being destroyed.

DevOps Engineer

Senior Engineer

Aren't Zepto employees made to work on weekends anyway? I've heard this on a lot of social media.

Software Engineer

Consultant

Well as long as the "hackathon" is not mandatory and people who don't participate have no repercussions, I don't mind anyone doing this. There are some workaholic people who get a high dive through an unrealistic amount of work in a short timeframe. Let them burn out faster, the rest of the folks can take a break.

Weekend par kaam karane ki Ninja technique

Every single one of these poor employees is a summer child. So excited about working on weekend.

Business analyst

Textbook definition of toxic hustle culture

Software Developer

Ayo what’s the alternative without R here?

Site Reliability

Do they even understand what people do in Hackathons?

One of my cousins works at a start-up. They have something called ‘Fun-Saturday,’ where, AFTER their regular work hours, their HR gathers all team members to do ‘1 hour of fun activities'. 💀

Wtf, solving tickets on weekdays in the name of hackathon🤡

This happens everywhere. In the name of hackathon companies are either making employees working on internal side projects or come up ideas and features that will be later integrated with the product. For all of this effort the team get's a prize money, but the company mints innovative ideas and good money flow by providing peanuts in the name of cash prize to the employees. 
 Employees are on the other way are blinded by this tactics and cash prize that they forget they are treated as cheap labours by their own organisation.

If people didn’t bash this in comments on LinkedIn, we’re doomed. May such founders get a taste of their own medicine somehow

Didn't see any negative comment on that linkedin post. Shame.

This idea is shared between founders for free labour. Leaders are pushed to motivate for no reason

Lawyer

Intern

Isn't this the same firm whose marketing team is posting good viral reels about jokes on teams and managers? Oh boy what an irony!

Looking at them being so happy after working on a weekend makes me sad...🥲🥲

Desi CEOs pushing teams to work on weekends and call it as a Hackathon🥲

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Can anyone tell me how hackathons are helpful and when I should take part if I know a bit of coding or when I am given an ample amount of time to coding.??? I also would like to know some prominent hackathons contest names and where to find them??? I saw one of the IIITD students who took part in an IITD hackathon. Can I take part if I am from tier 3 College from another state like Kolkata????

Hackathon

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Sequoia India used to host a hackathon. That used to be some epic stuff. Lots of really good devs used to come and make some kickass products. Post that I have been to numerous hackathon and it rarely makes a dent in quality of outputs. What do you guys think we can do to make hackathons great again? Most of the events these days are closed events for within a company. 

I'll start with some suggestions:
1. Have a decent prize money
2. Output should be judged on factors like completeness, business readiness, quality, usecase definition etc
3. Have good sponsors backing the cause so that we get awareness about the event.
4. Also support good innovation as well. Not like yet another Chat GPT coding assistant

Please add on to this. How can we have a great one again. Looking for ideas and if we end up with a decent suggestion then we can try to setup a hackathon of our own completely.

Hackathon Quality

Engineering manager

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What are some cool ways to make hackathon better, its for office. only employees allowed.

Looking for ideas to organise hackathon in office. Please suggest some.

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Using hackathons to build typical use cases is becoming more common in feature factories. No doubt, innovation takes the backseat.

Hackathons as an abuse mechanism

What are some weird terms startups use that could be spoken normally?  They need to stop using these freaking words. Let's put them all in this thread. Here are a few
1. Cohort
2. Kickoff/ Kickstarter
3. Deepdive
4. Supercharge
5. Breakouts
6. Teardowns
7. Kickass
8. Gamification
9. True North

Jargon reinvented by starups

Growth Manager

*IMPORTANT*

Monday morning and nobody at office. We have no option but to force strict rules now: 

1. If you arrive any later than 9:55 in office, it will be marked as half day leave. 

2. Lunch breaks are supposed to be max 40 mins long. I accept basic courtesy of following this, if not, I’ll tag people on the group. 

3. All leaves requests need to be emailed to me. Without any record on email, we might not be able give a record of how many leaves in each bracket are left for each individual. So don’t expect this data from us, if you don’t email.

Icing on the cake, CEO didn't come to the office

CEO of a YC funded fintech startup

Salesforce developer

One hack I know is that sending emails after working hours (like 8), considered as "Banda raat bhar kaam krta hai".

Please share yours!

Hacks to show your work to manager and teams(even if you are not working)

Software Test- QA

Work culture has become ultra toxic. Managers have started nano managing and literally are a pain in the ass. Product giving unrealistic timelines and leadership agreeing on the same without even consulting the developers and even if the developers are raising concerns, no fucks are given infact they are made to realise that this is how a startup should work. Literally everyone is working their asses off and still unable to meet the deadlines. Empathy is completely lost and WLB is a sham. People including me want to switch but are not even getting time to prepare.

Rant on Swiggy wlb

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What are some common stereotypes you've all encountered in Indian corporate culture?

I'll go first; the meetings that are never ending (and could have easily been an email).

Stereotypes of Indian Corporate Culture

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Microsoft's hackathons are taking some wild turns.

Wild hackathons

Ask any tech bro to work on Saturday and they will start crying about work life balance. FYI most professionals in India work on Saturdays. In India more than 90% folks are self employed. 

Lawyers, accountants, doctors, plumbers, carpenters, business owners all of them work on Saturdays. Your work life balance comes because you enjoy their services on Saturday and Sunday going around spending money and having fun. 

So not working on Saturday is a privilege and not a compulsion. 

On one side we are sad that companies lay us off and on the other side we want work life balance even at the cost of the growth. We despise anyone who creates wealth. 

Chal kya raha hai? Sabko startups mein bhi MNREGA scheme chahiye kya? Have some growth mindset folks. 

With so much work life balance you are just stuck in Manali traffic jam and Krishnagiri toll booth. 

Happy Traffic Christmas 🎁

Only tech Bros keep crying about work life balance!

All the great minds out there, product managers, engineers, sales or marketing guys 
Pitch in if you have any awesome genAI ideas in fields of e-commerce, fintech devops or any field which you feel like is untouched and can be a great take for genAI
Hackathon jeetne pe paisa 50-50 :D
Need the community's help 🚀

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How useful are hackathons

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Product Owner

Hey guys,
I am looking for people or teams that are really interested in deep diving into blockchain space (I am talking about consensus, networking, finality etc). I am planning to attend a lot of hackathons where we can build stuff and present it.

If anybody knows someone who is interested or any groups that are already there, please connect me to them or share link of groups.

You might be wondering why I am asking this here, honestly I didn't find any place to ask this especially in India, also I really wanted to see if people are really there who are genuinely interested in building and learning not just doing it for the sake of resume.

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