Desi CEOs pushing teams to work on weekends and call it as a Hackathon🥲
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.
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.
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.
Every single one of these poor employees is a summer child. So excited about working on weekend.
What are some cool ways to make hackathon better, its for office. only employees allowed.
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. ...
Using hackathons to build typical use cases is becoming more common in feature factories. No doubt, innovation takes the backseat.
