Hackathons Computer Engineers Get together to solve technical problems quickly. Now, they are increasingly help startups to solve another problem: exploring the talent of artificial intelligence.
This event, which combines people for 24 to 72 hours to build a software product, gained a jar in Silicon Valley in the 2000s and has become a basic relationship for large technology companies such as Meta.
But after the epidemic, Hackathons was slow to go again, said BELA WIRERTZ, founder of Tech: Eurobe, and the multiple AI’s Hackaths organizer all over the continent.
That changed with the mutation of artificial intelligence.
Wiertz said that since the arrival of Chatgpt in late 2022, more research laboratories and companies emerging from artificial intelligence have arranged Hackathons in cities with less “technical organization” in an attempt to collect higher talents.
“The applicable method for AI hot companies to compete with Big Tech to get the best group of talents.”
The major technology companies usually have a great advantage over startups in the talent market: they can overcome them in employment and lure the candidates who have great compensation packages.
Hackathons is one of the ways to start stadium to settle the stadium.
“The startups can spend the largest amount of money on LinkedIn ads or copy what Big Tech is doing in terms of Prestige, but they can show that they are more flexible, more friendly, that they are more committed to Hackathon,” said Benjamin Wolba, founder of the European Defense Company, which regulates the continent.
In some cases, Hackathons is used to detect early talents that may not reach them during traditional recruitment operations.
Angelo Giako, a graduate of the Imperial College in London and Eth Zurich, participated in Hackathon International Organization organized by eleven in November. After two weeks, he got a job offer as an engineer at AI Startup.
He told Bi: “I wouldn’t think about serving if I didn’t go to Hackathon.” He added: “We are now based on a few people from Hackathons, and we have launched one in seven different countries.”
It is not just young roles. Downt Capital from Chen said that after some Hackathons, some startups have seen “high -performance candidates, or in the case of Hackathon run by a technology company itself, its engineers who really have a really good job.”
Often, the startups of artificial intelligence want the talent of entrepreneurship that is not rooted in a specific background, and the employment of one of the penetration allows these deceptions to find people “who want to tamper with and build and make things better – who may not necessarily coincide with a classic computer profile that wants to work in a large technology.”
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Although traditional artificial intelligence research laboratories may not employ pure research talents from Hackathons, it is useful to have a source of solutions and engineers who face customers who can build technology in the application layer.
“As for the basic laboratories and all infrastructure partners such as Mistral and Eleven Labs, they are laboratories, but they sell their technology as an infrastructure,” Witz said. “For them, yes, it is related to employment, but it is also the adoption of technology in the ecosystem.”
Non -technical talent also has a shot
Increasingly, more people from non -technical backgrounds use artificial intelligence coding to operate software instructions and create technical products. This reduced the entry barrier for coding projects and expanded the talent group that participates in Hackathons.
“The university can be a very theory, but Hackathons helps us to face real life problems and get projects from the Earth,” said Franzeska Harzheim, Scout in Flash Point, who participated in many multiple Hackathons.
With a degree in business analyzes, Harzheim did not find a way to take advantage of its background to build AI product with a team. She said: “I feel that these hackathon are not related to the presence of a team of five expertise expertise. It seems as if we are looking at everyone’s skills group, and accordingly, we divide the tasks.” “If you are ready to learn something new immediately, this is your space, it’s surprising.”
It is also a valuable opportunity for companies to evaluate potential candidates from technical and non -artistic backgrounds.
“You can see how people perform, whether they earn food or do things in real life, not at an evaluation center.” “You can see them working inside-it can be very dense information, so it is an effective way to understand if you want to work with this person.”
