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> Most (if not all) hackathons in my country are sponsored by companies to try out their new api's, gather potential hires under one roof, or for investors/business people trying to find developers/co-founders.

This accurately describes every hackathon I've been to in San Francisco. (Facebook, Heroku, RackSpace...)

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Hopefully I'm being Captain Obvious, but:

Using hackathons as a hiring tactic doesn't seem like a very smart idea, given how self-evidently discriminatory it is on the axes the OP describes.

>Using hackathons as a hiring tactic doesn't seem like a very smart idea, given how self-evidently discriminatory it is on the axes the OP describes.

Assuming that this is a problem for the companies in question. Personally, i agree with you: there ought to be Less Discrimination. I'm just wondering if a stereotypical SV outfit worries much about that.

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