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How They Won an Amazon Hackathon (and a 6-Month Internship)

Kunal Kushwaha · Programming & Tech · 31 min · 23 thousand views · published 2026-09-11

What does it take to win an Amazon hackathon and turn your development skills into a 6-month internship? I sat down with team HackOGs, one o

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