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Hackathon Survival Guide: What You Need To Know Going Into A Hackathon

hackerearth

There’s nothing quite like walking into a campus cafeteria, a large conference room, or endless halls stacked together for a weekend-long hackathon. Developers of all skill levels, with various backgrounds in countless programming languages and areas of expertise, all coming together for one purpose: to build something new.

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The Rise of Product Management

Moves the Needle

I don’t know how technical Ken was back then, but he had the respect of the Software Engineers, which was critical. His primary function was to digest the Founders’ vision, understand the market, illicit requirements from customers, and work with Engineering management to determine what would make it into the next release.