Originally published on AI Tech Connect.
What this playbook covers Hackathons occupy a strange place in AI careers advice. Half the internet treats them as CV decoration; the other half treats winning one as a golden ticket. Both are wrong, and the truth is more useful: a hackathon is the highest-density proof-of-work event available to a builder in either India or the UK, and its career value is decided almost entirely by what you do in the two weeks after the closing ceremony, not by whether your name was read out. This guide walks the whole arc. First, why a weekend of building outperforms a month of cold applications as a hiring signal. Second, how to choose events across the Indian circuit — Smart India Hackathon, the Unstop and Devfolio listings, corporate innovation challenges — and the UK circuit of MLH-backed university…
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