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Like auditions for a part in a play or tryouts for a sports team, developers have their own rituals for landing hot gigs: hackathons. Facebook recently held its own competitive coding session with teams from 14 schools.
Their assignment was to build an app that solved an everyday annoyance. The students also had a chance to network with Facebook staff at its Palo Alto office and win a cash prize.