Hackathons are Facebook’s overnight innovation sessions, usually held every six or eight weeks. In Facebook’s early days, hackathons involved just a few handfuls of employees. They’d order takeout and ...

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If you’ve paid attention to Facebook’s culture at all, you know that one thing has stayed true since its launch. The company has a hacker mentality, and since 2007 has held many official “hackathons” ...

The only rule of Facebook hackathons is you can’t work on work. Hackathons are Facebook’s overnight innovation sessions, usually held every six or eight weeks. In Facebook’s early days, hackathons ...