If you are wondering if it is possible to use hackathons as a tool for hiring employees, we suggest that you take 15 minutes to read this article.
We interviewed over 400 hackathon participants to understand this topic.
The study was carried out for two reasons at once.
Firstly, to clearly articulate the hackathon values for the participants and, as a result, conduct our events even better and create the very hack atmosphere that is widely talked about in the IT community.
Secondly, we plan to conduct hackathons, which will be a full-fledged recruiting tool . Therefore, we first decided to understand whether this is interesting for hackers (a “hacker" is a member of a hackathon, not a cracker of government sites).
It is believed that using hackathons for hire is simply inefficient. After 35 hackathons, we realized that the point is not that a hackathon is a bad tool, but that they do not know how to use it. Often companies do not know how to highlight their advantages in order to interest hackers.
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