Facebook's Hackathons Get a Rethink

itwbennett writes "They'll still be all-night coding sessions, but starting with this week's 'Project Mayhem' event, there are a few notable changes. First, they're longer — starting at 11 a.m. Thursday and continuing until 2 p.m. Friday. And coding through the night is optional. 'It's like, "let's take this day off to do this, and then if I need to get more done, we can hang out and finish at night,"' said Facebook engineering manager Pedram Keyani, who organizes the hackathons."

Comments

Re:... and then spend

[Sarusa]

Yo bro it's to prove that you're ready to CRUSH CODE and brogram like a real brogrammer bro.

That is of course tongue in cheek... yet accurate. http://www.metafilter.com/113526/Want-to-bro-down-and-crush-code

Re:hackathon?

[girlintraining]

When you start giving me random increases in pay, I'll start doing random amounts of unpaid overtime.

Make sure the ranges for the call to random() are acceptable, otherwise you're going to get screwed by the law of averages. And if there's one thing you can count on managers to mess with... it's statistics. :)