Rippling Hack Week: ideas, application, ambition, and imagination

Hack Week is a week-long, bi-annual (by popular demand!) competition open to everyone at Rippling, tech skills notwithstanding. Categories include product feature prototypes, internal tooling, marketing and promotion, customer experience and more! 

Hack Week helps Rippling tap the wealth of experience, knowledge, and new ideas that our employees are always coming up with to create inspirational changes to our product. So many times, our clients have been delighted by the changes that have come about as a result of Hack Week.  

And it’s a process that helps us continue to be a company and a product that Frees Smart People to Work On Hard Problems.

We promise our employees that when they work at Rippling, they will be empowered to test their limits, and hopefully, surpass them. Hack Week is just one more way we like to give our employees the opportunity to fly.

How the magic happens

• Jot down your lofty, ambitious ideas on a platform open to all employees. This time we had nearly 90 awesome ideas that people across the company, including Ripplers from Product, Sales, Engineering, Finance, and Marketing, wanted to make into a reality. Despite the challenges of remote work and collaboration, people came together to support each other. 

• Identify and collaborate with your volunteer team over the course of the following two weeks to execute. Employees get time off from their regular responsibilities to help them brainstorm and collaborate with their team. 

• Present your Hack on Demo Day!

Hackstream: because ambition seeks inspiration

Hackstream is a four-day schedule of 30-minute learning sessions — a mini-conference, if you will! Open to all employees, the goal of Hackstream is to get you to think outside of the box and learn something new from your peers. Whether it is negotiation tips from the OG Parker himself, quick and dirty personal finance tips, or advice in navigating the complexities of human behavior, Hackstream had it all.