I worked as the Developer Advocate at my last company (An Agile tools vendor). While I was there I had helped out some larger companies run their own internal hackathons. One of the services that we helped them with was planning the event.<p>For the most part I worked as a therapist for their executive team, usually I spent most of my time reassuring them that losing a day of engineering time would be a good investment and that they didn&#x27;t need to vet the projects that the teams worked on. It was fun work bringing that awesome kind of &quot;goof-off&quot; dev work to engineers that had been working with the same team for 20 years and had been pidgeonholed onto some old legacy system.<p>The execs pretty much always loved it, you got to see teams led by interns with grizzled senior neckbeards getting to write some code for them.