{"id":4549,"date":"2018-02-27T10:24:15","date_gmt":"2018-02-27T18:24:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/garage-en-us\/?p=4549"},"modified":"2019-06-12T15:46:13","modified_gmt":"2019-06-12T22:46:13","slug":"powerpoint-team-shows-hackathons-teamwork-best-testing-grounds-giving-life-ideas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http://approjects.co.za/?big=en-us/garage\/blog\/2018\/02\/powerpoint-team-shows-hackathons-teamwork-best-testing-grounds-giving-life-ideas\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerPoint team shows how hackathons and teamwork are the best testing grounds for giving life to ideas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hacking culture comes naturally to Alex Gueniot. As the senior software engineer for PowerPoint driving technical implementation of new features, he just can\u2019t give up on good ideas.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>&#8220;I compulsively need to create and to collaborate with people. That\u2019s why I\u2019ve been involved in almost 20 hackathon projects in the past seven years. One year, I was on six hackathon teams at once. Good luck getting me to stop multitasking.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In this mini-documentary, get an inside look into the hack culture of the PowerPoint team as you follow a group of employees while they attempt to turn their ambitious hack idea into reality.<\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-wrap\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video\" title=\"Stories from One Week: Hacking PowerPoint\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/W8MBKE0ihyA?feature=oembed&#038;rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Gueniot shares how hackathons force you to find side routes to arriving at answers, something he has always been interested in.<br \/>\n&#8220;Before I started working at Microsoft, I had this idea to do an animated r\u00e9sum\u00e9. 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