In an effort to lift everybody’s spirits, Zuckerberg offered to host a company-wide hackathon an attempt at a lighthearted diversion that landed with a thud among employees.
lmao “Hey, you guys wanna work more, but ‘for fun’?”
I used to work for a company that did them. Your usual deliverables would be paused, including meetings.
It wasn’t “more”. They were great. Most of our internal tooling was prototyped that way, and that looking was super awesome… because it directly solved the real issues we had in our processes.
My current company is “you can during the designated hackathon events, but you still have to do everything you usually would”. Which is absurd because it means that we don’t always have the option to work late for free.
lmao “Hey, you guys wanna work more, but ‘for fun’?”
I used to work for a company that did them. Your usual deliverables would be paused, including meetings.
It wasn’t “more”. They were great. Most of our internal tooling was prototyped that way, and that looking was super awesome… because it directly solved the real issues we had in our processes.
My current company is “you can during the designated hackathon events, but you still have to do everything you usually would”. Which is absurd because it means that we don’t always have the option to work late for free.