LinkedIn Hackdays started out as a way of engaging and encouraging the creative juices of all employees. LinkedIn sets aside one Friday every month as a day to work on any project one can dream up, get it to completion in a day, and present it to the entire company including the executive staff, and win prizes. About three years ago, LinkedIn started hosting...
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Our Annual Women's Hackday, DevelopHer, is back! On October 25, 2013, we are inviting women to get together, hack all night, meet amazing judges, and compete with the best and brightest in Silicon Valley. Register for DevelopHer 2013! Last year's DevelopHer brought together experienced and novice hackers, women from startups and freshmen students alike. The...
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- Women in Tech,
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The authors of this article are Guan Wang, Xiangnan Kong, Yuchen Zhao, and Tongbo Luo. They are the Cofounders of Scissorsfly.com. Yuchen Zhao will represent the team as a judge for LinkedIn’s 2013 Intern Hackday. We were interns at some of the coolest tech companies in Silicon Valley, and we are amazed how much that experience changed our lives. It also...
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- innovation
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Every summer, our campus is renewed with the arrival of the incredible intern class. The energy is infectious, the frozen yogurt...
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- engineering,
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A primary challenge that software developers face is making sure that people understand how to use their products. Ideally, user...
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- in-context product tours,
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- Hackday,
- JavaScript,
- incubator
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It has been said that “Innovation is a series of small wins along a truly disruptive trajectory.” That’s why I’m proud to be an...