Hackathons
topic on 3 shows · 3 statements across 3 episodes
3 statements about Hackathons, every show
Arora: Palo Alto Networks exclusively hires via hackathons to transform workforce
“We've been hiring people only through hackathons now, right? And we see natural attrition of two percent, give or take a month, and we just replace them with people who actually are AI savvy people who are from hackathons. Give me 12 months, I'll have sort of …”
Hackathons should avoid cash prizes to deter mercenary hunters
“Our, also our guiding principle was we're not going to do prizes. Because what happens with hackathons when you do prizes, you have a professional hackathon hunters and they go and just swoop in, you know, they take the prize there and they go off.”
Kapoor: Limiting hackathons to engineers is a massive mistake
“I think that most people think that like, oh, hackathons are only a time for engineers to build. And I think that that's one of the biggest mistakes ever. I think that anyone can have an idea and can literally, what I did was like walk around the New York offi…”