Crafting a Hack Week that people love

Authored by?Faire?Staff Engineer, Paul Salvatore

At?Faire, we value the opportunity to innovate through collaboration. Sharing learnings and diverse perspectives is one of the reasons we love bringing folks from different functions and expertise together. Each unique perspective is an opportunity to improve our business and better serve our customers.

Engineers are often familiar with the structure and goals of hackathons, but these can be new concepts to folks from other parts of an organization. When we introduced Hack Week — Faire’s annual week-long hackathon — in 2019, we knew that we wanted to build a culture and impact-driven event that everyone across the company could be involved in and look forward to. That meant that we needed to be intentional in how we generated excitement and educated Fairefolk.

Keep reading to learn more about how we designed Hack Week to be an engaging event across the company — and drive the most value for Faire .↓