Unpopular opinion? Nah.
It's fairly well known that they're problematic at best, in that they epitomize the practices of an industry obsessed with exploiting younger workers, crunch time, and gender imbalance.
It's fairly well known that they're problematic at best, in that they epitomize the practices of an industry obsessed with exploiting younger workers, crunch time, and gender imbalance.
And thus we get a work force in places like Sweden where 85% of both men and women choose to work at places which is classified as severely gender segregated. Gender imbalance is the norm.
e.g. people who are struggling to make ends meet and need actual work that pays cash, or people who have a bunch of responsibility with very little time (family to look after)
that said, such people are also disadvantaged in the workforce generally as they may lack the free time and money to be able to pursue opportunities for better jobs to help bootstrap into better circumstances, so it ain't something hackathon specific.