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Event Description
Skip the resume pile. Get Hired Hack is a one-day, in-person hackathon at Columbia Startup Lab where NYC's fastest-growing startups bring real problems from their roadmaps, & you show them what working with you looks like.
Founders who are hiring will be in the room, watching you build. Ship something great & your demo becomes your first commit.
Problem Statement
Startups don't hire resumes. They hire people who ship. But hiring still runs on LeetCode, keyword filters & 45-minute calls that tell a founder almost nothing about how you work.
At Get Hired Hack, each hiring startup brings one real, scoped problem it would actually assign a new engineer. Pick a track, build against it, & demo it to the founder who wrote it. Founders get the best hiring signal there is: real work on their real problem. You get a shot at a role on proof of work, not pedigree.
The Challenge Tracks
Each track is a real problem from a hiring startup:
TBD
Expect problems across:
AI agents & LLM-powered features
Full-stack product work
Infra, devtools & data pipelines
Growth & internal tooling
What to Expect
Founders who are hiring pitch their problem at kickoff
[~6] hours of focused building on real startup problems
Teams of 4
Demos to the founder whose problem you picked
Lunch, coffee & a room full of people building NYC's next great companies
Prizes
Every track winner gets a fast-tracked final-round interview with that startup's founder
Judges
TBD
Who Should Attend
Engineers with real shipping experience (full stack, backend, AI/ML, infra)
Senior engineers curious about joining an early-stage startup
Builders who'd rather show their work than talk about it
Engineers who want to be a startup's first or fifth hire, not its five-hundredth
You don't need to be actively job hunting. Come build, meet founders & see what's out there.
Sponsors
TBD
Hosts
Somya Gupta: The face of NYC startup ecosystem.
Columbia Startup Lab: Columbia's home for alumni founders, a coworking space & community in SoHo.
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