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Dutch Open Hackathon

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Sad to see the word 'hackathon' being misappropriated by a bunch of companies seeking people to test their API's and maybe inspire a bit of new business developments for free.

OpenState.eu is as far as I understood part of this, which I find even sadder since nothing about this concept comes near their goals as stated on their site:

"Open State represents a community of developers and re-users of open data. We work on the basis of a number of open data programs around political transparency, education, culture and health care. Therefore we influence policy in the field of digital transparency, open government and freedom of PSI and data collected by the (semi) public sector."

Please stop using the word hackathon for a lame attempt at sharecropping people.

Speaking of Dutch companies, I think I may be getting a job offer as a Data Scientist from booking.com. Anyone working there? Is it a decent company to work for? Ok pay and relocation package (would be moving from Norht America)? Thanks.

I have NOT worked there, so I'm not speaking from personal experience, and it may be different for data scientists than for programmers. From what I hear in the tech scene here, they seem to be the place that programmers go when they want to just code for 8 hours and go home in the evening and get paid well for it, rather than this startup environment where they're expected to be involved in product decisions etc. I hope that helps a little and I hope others can share more insight.

contact me... i want to ask you a question and provide little info that i know

Search HN - you'll find at least one discussion between someone who's very positive and someone who's rather negative.

I work at Booking.com - have been here for two years and I consider it to be one of the best jobs I've ever had (admittedly, my previous jobs weren't great). Great team of people and we get a lot of flexibility to choose how we want to work. Personally, as a father I also really appreciate the work/life balance here - there is zero pressure to work silly hours.

hey, can you contact me (from my profile), want to ask you something? thanks

Amazing! Would be good if big companies here in Brazil could do the same :/

I read it as Dutch Oven Hackathon. LOL

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