I don't really see any real personal benefit to participating in company internal ones, especially when you're not given any reprieve of your normal tasks (i.e. your main job will be accumulating a backlog of work while you're busy doing the hackathon that you'll have to work extra to catch up on).
Both my current job, and the client I'm working for on behalf of my current job (I'm in consulting) have hosted a couple of hackathons each, and I didn't participate in them. I remember one of them was over a weekend, so I would have had to give up my weekend in order to participate, and essentially work 12 straight days for my company (two weeks of weekdays with the weekend in between) without a break.
If I'm going to do extra work above and beyond my main job, I'm going to work on my own projects and release them myself. And the main things I want to work on are game-related anyway, which my current job doesn't care about at all.
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I don't really see any real personal benefit to participating in company internal ones, especially when you're not given any reprieve of your normal tasks (i.e. your main job will be accumulating a backlog of work while you're busy doing the hackathon that you'll have to work extra to catch up on).
Both my current job, and the client I'm working for on behalf of my current job (I'm in consulting) have hosted a couple of hackathons each, and I didn't participate in them. I remember one of them was over a weekend, so I would have had to give up my weekend in order to participate, and essentially work 12 straight days for my company (two weeks of weekdays with the weekend in between) without a break.
If I'm going to do extra work above and beyond my main job, I'm going to work on my own projects and release them myself. And the main things I want to work on are game-related anyway, which my current job doesn't care about at all.