Nineleaps organizes Virtual Hackathon for its employees working remotely in more than 75 cities across India
- Key initiative to boost Remote Employee Engagement during the Pandemic
Mumbai, 26th May, 2020 : Nineleaps, a Bengaluru-based product
engineering company that provides application services and accelerates product
development for a range of customers, has successfully been able to manage and
conduct recently a two day Virtual
Hackathon for its employees working remotely in more than 75 cities across
India. In-spite of the challenges of working remotely, the Virtual Hackathon
saw participation of over 183 employees of Nineleaps split across 24 teams.
Finally, 10 of the teams were awarded prizes across various categories.
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| Divy Shrivastava, Co-Founder and CEO of Nineleaps |
This year’s
Hackathon saw a change as it was held remotely and was one of the key
initiatives taken by Nineleaps to boost Remote Employee Engagement during the pandemic
and maintain a strong work culture digitally.
The Hackathon, a
flagship event of Nineleaps, is a two-day annual coding event at the company.
It encourages employees to form teams and create innovative solutions for
real-life problems by coding overnight. The purpose of the Hackathon is to
rekindle the coder’s spirit by challenging them to think and create
out-of-the-box solutions for everyday problems. The best solutions from the
event are then selected and further support is extended so that the project
launches into the market.
As
the Hackathon was held remotely, it utilized various virtual platforms such as
GitHub, AWS, Slack. All communication with judges happened on Zoom and Hangout
calls. Though the challenge of remote operation was ever-present, there was an
overwhelming response from the employees’ side.
“Nineleaps
has always been dynamic when it comes to adapting to change. We foresaw the
possibility of remote working and started establishing protocols way before it
was made mandatory,” said Divy
Shrivastava, Co-Founder and CEO of Nineleaps. “Thanks to our employees, we
were not only able to successfully implement a remote working framework but
also took it one step ahead by organizing and successfully conducting a Virtual
Hackathon. Despite the challenges, we have been able to deliver better value
for our clients and are hiring more aggressively than before the pandemic.”
About Nineleaps: Nineleaps is a trusted partner in
accelerating digital transformation through product development. Our expertise
lies in mobile, web development, big data engineering, machine
learning/artificial intelligence, automation and DevOps. Global brands from
various sectors partner with us to ideate, plan, design, build and modernize
smart products that help businesses enhance agility and responsiveness to meet
unique present and future market demands., For more info, please visit: www.nineleaps.com
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