Hackathon Awesomeness, Career Benefits and Culture with Sashrika Kaur
Beyond Coding24 Mai 2023

Hackathon Awesomeness, Career Benefits and Culture with Sashrika Kaur

I’ve never heard someone talk bad about hackathons. Everyone loves it.

The projects that’ve been built during hackathons have even been the start of a company, of something big.

But what about hackathons make people like it so much. Is it the people, the format, the culture?


Sashrika Kaur comes on to discuss all these things and more!

Enjoy! 🎙


Connect with Sashrika Kaur:

https://linkedin.com/in/sashrika-kaur

https://twitter.com/sashrikakaur


Full episode on YouTube ▶️

https://youtu.be/L5TFtJet-Ic

New episodes every Wednesday with our host 🎙Patrick Akil!

Big shoutout to ⁠Xebia⁠ for sponsoring this episode!


OUTLINE:

00:00:00 - Intro

00:00:29 - Sashrika moving to London

00:02:37 - Friendships across the world

00:03:09 - How Sashrika got involved in Major League Hacking

00:05:51 - Innovation Days vs. hackathons

00:09:13 - People love hackathons

00:13:36 - A focus on collaboration

00:15:04 - Building things from scratch

00:18:14 - The perfect duration of a hackathon

00:20:07 - hackathon skills that translate to your career

00:23:47 - The benefit of reading code

00:25:05 - Competitiveness in developing software

00:27:01 - Personal insecurities in hackathons

00:32:21 - It's about the outcomes

00:32:57 - Good vs. great hackathons

00:37:16 - Why the term "hacker"?

00:39:57 - Optimal team sizes

00:41:49 - What do you become a hackathon coach?

00:44:04 - Why Sashrika works in big tech

00:48:23 - Balancing the workload

00:51:41 - More or less hackathons?

00:55:21 - Go to hackathons!

Denne episoden er hentet fra en åpen RSS-feed og er ikke publisert av Podme. Den kan derfor inneholde annonser.

Episoder(269)

How Amp Ships 50 Times a Day With AI Agents

How Amp Ships 50 Times a Day With AI Agents

Amp ships to production around 50 times a day with AI agents, but the change that makes their team ship faster isn't AI at all. Dario Hamidi, AI engineer at Amp, makes the case that pull requests are ...

23 Sep 43min

How Top Engineers Still Get Hired When Most Get Ghosted

How Top Engineers Still Get Hired When Most Get Ghosted

How do top engineers still get hired in 2026 when most applicants get ghosted, 120,000 people have been laid off this year, and hiring managers say they can't find talent? A recruiter, a hiring lead, ...

16 Sep 33min

Why an Ex-Googler Bet Everything on an Open-Source Database

Why an Ex-Googler Bet Everything on an Open-Source Database

Jordan Tigani helped create Google BigQuery, then got fired as Chief Product Officer on a Friday morning. He planned to hack on DuckDB to learn Rust. Investors offered to fund it before he'd decided t...

9 Sep 40min

How the Best Engineers Build a World Model (Google Earth Creator & Niantic Spatial CTO)

How the Best Engineers Build a World Model (Google Earth Creator & Niantic Spatial CTO)

Niantic Spatial CTO Brian McClendon on how the best engineers solve problems most give up on — from a 4D model of the world to shipping research in months. He built Google Earth and ran Google Maps fo...

2 Sep 37min

How New Staff Engineers Build Judgment Without Years of Experience

How New Staff Engineers Build Judgment Without Years of Experience

How do new staff engineers build judgment without the years of experience that used to come with the role? Mallika Rao, engineering leader in big tech, explains why the data-structures-and-algorithms ...

26 Aug 49min

Amazon AI Lead: What Differentiates The Best AI Coding Models

Amazon AI Lead: What Differentiates The Best AI Coding Models

How does Amazon build its agentic AI? Michael Giannangeli, Head of Product for Amazon Nova and Agentic AI, breaks down evals, RL gyms, and model routing. He also explains why the bottleneck in softwar...

19 Aug 41min

Wes Bos: How Developers Stand Out When AI Writes the Code

Wes Bos: How Developers Stand Out When AI Writes the Code

AI is changing what developers build, but code alone is no longer enough to prove what you can do. Wes Bos explains why engineers need to solve problems beyond syntax, how agent workflows are reshapin...

12 Aug 24min

Career Advice Every Software Engineer Needs Right Now

Career Advice Every Software Engineer Needs Right Now

Answering engineer questions on AI pressure, career growth, product thinking and impact. Including the production incident I'm glad happened, and the mindset I refuse to accept when things break.In th...

5 Aug 55min

Populært innen Teknologi

teknisk-sett
tomprat-med-gunnar-tjomlid
lydartikler-fra-aftenposten
energi-og-klima
elektropodden
rss-ki-praten
hans-petter-og-co
nasjonal-sikkerhetsmyndighet-nsm
shifter
smart-forklart
rss-alt-som-gar-pa-strom
rss-ai-forklart
teknologi-og-mennesker
rss-snakk-om-sikkerhet
rss-kunstig-intelligens-med-elisabeth-maren-og-morten
fornybaren
rss-teknologioptimistene-en-podkast-om-teknologi-og-mennesker
pedagogisk-intelligens
rss-alt-vi-kan
rss-heis