Hackathons are a part of the culture at Busbud! Twice a year, our team members put their usual jobs aside for 3 days to work on a project that they think is interesting and worthwhile – whether exploring something new in the product, for the company culture or something else they’ve been itching to work on. Here are few reasons why we like hackathons:
Here is a brief overview of some of the projects our team worked on last week:
The team took a three-pronged approach to test how Busbud’s search performance can be improved. The first was to focus on reducing page weight and deliver a stripped down, performance focused search experience that would load very quickly. The second used machine learning to improve the speed with which results are served, and the third proposed various optimizations in our databases.
These prototypes provided invaluable insights on how we can improve Busbud, and are being currently studied by our Engineering team so we can serve our customers at the speed of light!
Being super helpful, sustainable, having an independent spirit and going places are our core values at Busbud. This team’s objective was to incorporate them to the space we work in everyday. Over 3 days, they undertook actions to concretely demonstrate our values in our workspace. Here are a few examples of what they did:
At Busbud, we like to let the numbers do the talking. Being data-driven is fundamental to the way we work, so when the idea of creating a dashboard on our office Monitor where we can display our key metrics was pitched by our developer Benoit, team members were immediately on board.
The final product not only shows data that is most important to team members, but is also controllable remotely via smart phones and team members are able to post custom messages on the screen!
Carl was applauded for his hard work during the hackathon, notably in improving our office environment and taking initiatives to make Busbud a more sustainable workplace, as part of the Values in Our Office project.
Read about our previous hackathon projects:
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