{"id":985218,"date":"2026-01-14T07:54:33","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T02:24:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=985218"},"modified":"2026-01-14T07:54:29","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T02:24:29","slug":"hackathons-turn-talent-cliquebait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/14\/hackathons-turn-talent-cliquebait\/","title":{"rendered":"Hackathons turn talent cliquebait"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was barely dawn and the streets in the upscale suburb of Neelankarai in Chennai were mostly empty, save for a few vegetable vendors, those out on morning walks, and devotees ambling to a temple nearby. Outside a quick commerce dark store, however, a group of riders were already perched on their bikes. They looked groggy. Some rubbed their eyes to stay awake, weary from working late at night. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cRegardless of what happens\u2014whether I have slept or bathed\u2014I make sure to come in before 6am because that is when the peak time starts for us. I can always go back home and sleep in the afternoon when the order flow is less,\u201d one of them reasoned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was barely dawn and the streets in the upscale suburb of Neelankarai in Chennai were mostly empty, save for a few vegetable vendors, those out on morning walks, and devotees ambling to a temple nearby. Outside a quick commerce dark store, however, a group of riders were already perched on their bikes. They looked groggy. Some rubbed their eyes to stay awake, weary from working late at night. \u201cRegardless of what happens\u2014whether I have slept or bathed\u2014I make sure to come in before 6am because that is when the peak time starts for us. I can always go back [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-985218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=985218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985218\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=985218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=985218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=985218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}