I worked as the Developer Advocate at my last company (An Agile tools vendor). While I was there I had helped out some larger companies run their own internal h

I worked as the Developer Advocate at my last company (An Agile tools vendor). While I was there I had helped out some larger companies run their own internal hackathons. One of the services that we helped them with was planning the event. For the most part I worked as a therapist for their executive team, usually I spent most of my time reassuring them that losing a day of engineering time would be a good investment and that they didn't need to vet the projects that the teams worked on. It was fun work bringing that awesome kind of "goof-off" dev work to engineers that had been working with the same team for 20 years and had been pidgeonholed onto some old legacy system. The execs pretty much always loved it, you got to see teams led by interns with grizzled senior neckbeards getting to write some code for them.