Make your mark: 5 Chicago tech companies where employees run with their ideas
Summary
Senior data scientists Dmitry Bandurin and Xuebing Bu each weighed in on how features and process improvements they were encouraged to develop made an impact on their team.These seemingly trivial processes improved product delivery efficiency, minimized errors due to miscommunication and helped an already high-performing team build an even stronger culture.Hackathons are a great way to experiment with new tools and technologies and also provide an opportunity to work with people from different parts of the agency and to take on roles that might be outside of your normal job.A small committee of employees from across the business wrote up a plan for a hackathon we could host in our office and presented the idea to company leadership, which gave their full support.We ended up combining elements of both hackathon teams’ creations to build a progressive web app designed for our Experience Lab, a client event we host annually.