---
title: "Imagine if engineers pretended to be salespeople."
description: "Imagine if engineers pretended to be salespeople. They would write random sales pitches they stole from SEO blogspam, insist they be emailed to customers, then hold a mandatory sales hackathon twice a year."
author: "Pau Friedman"
kind: "short"
published_at: "2026-05-08"
url: "https://pau.fm/blog/2026/05/08/mandatory-sales-hackathon"
markdown_url: "https://pau.fm/blog/2026/05/08/mandatory-sales-hackathon.md"
canonical_url: "https://pau.fm/blog/2026/05/08/mandatory-sales-hackathon"
---

# Imagine if engineers pretended to be salespeople\.

Imagine if engineers pretended to be salespeople. They would write random sales pitches they stole
from SEO blogspam, insist they be emailed to customers, then hold a mandatory sales hackathon twice
a year.