At the Money 2020 Hackathon in Las Vegas, there’s more than just the $125,000 in prize money at stake. Winners here may also land a job with one of the hackathon’s sponsors PayPal.
“They get to learn about our products and our company,” said PayPal’s Chief Technology Officer James Barrese. “We get to see what they are able to produce.”
Tech talent is in high demand these days, so to fill the couple of hundred jobs it has open, PayPal uses hackathons as one way of finding new workers, along with more traditional routes like recruiting on college campuses and bringing people into the office for tech meet ups.