This article almost seems satirical. Given I can only speak for the hackathons I’ve been to; a couple in college and others at two of the big 5, I still feel li

This article almost seems satirical. Given I can only speak for the hackathons I’ve been to; a couple in college and others at two of the big 5, I still feel like nothing about them is forced and people just work on whatever they feel like working on. If my company paid me to just work on passion projects of course I’d work into the night - that’s what I do already for side projects that I enjoy. And hell, if companies want to provide food and beer for a few days while I do what I’d be doing anyway, that’s awesome! I can see how maybe a culture of being forced to work on weekends due to corporate culture can be bad, but I don’t think that’s what happens. And yeah if FB actually does have hackathons over weekends and the culture doesn’t give someone a choice to not go that seems wrong, I just highly doubt that’s the case based on my experiences.