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Hackathons are a professional embarrassment. Developers get all excited about coding overnight, but in reality they're being taken advantage of - what other in
by albertgoeswoof 9y ago
Hackathons are a professional embarrassment.
Developers get all excited about coding overnight, but in reality they're being taken advantage of - what other industry do we see this in? You don't ask a lawyer to stay up all night eating pizza and churn out a bunch of legal documents. Why? Because they'd tell you where to go.
"Non-technical" people see a neat demo coming out of a 24 hour hackathon and wonder why it takes their company's developers 6 months and 300k to build an app for them. The expectations this sets (that developers work for free, all night, without any quality or discipline) are not acceptable.
- piker 9y ago> You don't ask a lawyer to stay up all night eating pizza and churn out a bunch of legal documents. Why? Because they'd tell you where to go. That's precisely incorrect.
- richardknop 9y agoThe lawyer will charge you a hefty hourly rate for overnight work (couple hundred per hour) while developers will get free pizza and beer / soda drinks. So it's exploitation in this way. I wonder how many companies would do hackatons if they have to pay their devs overtime rates for their participation.
- albertgoeswoof 9y ago> I wonder how many companies would do hackatons if they have to pay their devs overtime rates for their participation 0
- nunez 9y agoyeah but they get paid for it