Big data vs Pokemon

[pendell]

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Interview question: Ask a candidate if ze's familiar with Jirachi. Does ze recognize that I'm actually talking about a pokemon? Or does ze bluff?

Tongue-in-cheek,

Brian P.

[factotum]

Or do they say, "Sorry, I'm not familiar with that, but am willing to learn."...

[DavidSh]

That's worse than asking a vendor whether his system is RFC 1149 compliant.

(Which could be interpreted as checking for tolerance of ridiculously long latencies.)

[Rockphed]

I feel this is relevant.

[JeenLeen]

Reminds me of when, during a programming/program manager interview, I was asked, "What sort of music do you listen to?"

Still don't know if he was just interjecting casual conversation, was wanting to see how I responded to an unexpected question, or had some other reason. I heard -- not sure if joking or not -- that they asked it to the other interviewees as well, but it wasn't on the original list of questions.

Honestly, even if someone mentioned a Pokemon I knew, I'd assume it was also the name of some system or software I was ignorant of. Jirachi sounds like some Japanese software, or, well, an anime dude.

[Lvl 2 Expert]

100%!


I know way too many Pokémon...

[Jormengand]

Not actually that hard - I got 100% with just enough knowledge of each to work out the naming conventions common to each.

[137beth]

78%. There were several where I thought "okay, I'm pretty sure Nintendo/Creatures/Gamefreak wouldn't use a name like that for a Pokemon, so it's gotta be big data, right?"

[Alabenson]

100%!


I know way too many Pokémon...

I got 100% as well for the exact same reason.

[ProfLucario]

Yup, it's more or less a quiz of "Pokemon" vs. "Not Pokemon" and I think it's meant to illustrate the absurdity of how many of each there are.

[Knaight]

I got 91%, and while a lot of them were pretty clear (particularly overt references to other things, e.g. Azkaban being a big data software or company) there were definitively enough that weren't to chip away at them, particularly the ones I didn't just recognize (a chunk of each, though a larger chunk for Pokemon).

[pendell]

Yup, it's more or less a quiz of "Pokemon" vs. "Not Pokemon" and I think it's meant to illustrate the absurdity of how many of each there are.

From my perspective as a professional, I think it's meant to illustrate how silly some of the big data names are. Flink? Azkaban? Summingbird? Really?

Respectfully,

Brian P.

[Douglas]

From my perspective as a professional, I think it's meant to illustrate how silly some of the big data names are. Flink? Azkaban? Summingbird? Really?

Respectfully,

Brian P.

There's a big data company named "Really"?

[snowblizz]

From my perspective as a professional, I think it's meant to illustrate how silly some of the big data names are.
Flink?

Can't really figure that oen out. But "flink" does mean agile in Swedish. The squirrel I don't get.

Azkaban?

Database nerds are Harry Potter nerds. You know they think of themselves as datawizards right?

Summingbird?

A hilarious play on words with hummingbird. You know they still chuckle at that one everytime they use it and have good snort of their asthma-inhalers afterwards.

Really?

Don't know that one. Bet someone is starting it up as we type.

There's a big data company named "Really"?

If there's isn't a group somewhere starting up "Really Big Data" I'll be sorely desillusioned with the field.

[ben-zayb]

Considering that they only included Gen 1-23 mons, it's possible for people who only tried playing Gen 23 to get these correctly without being really into Pokémon. I mean I can't possibly be the only one who stopped playing/watching a good decade and a half ago (Gen 3), and still got a 100%.

[zimmerwald1915]

Considering that they only included Gen 1-23 mons, it's possible for people who only tried playing Gen 23 to get these correctly without being really into Pokémon. I mean I can't possibly be the only one who stopped playing/watching a good decade and a half ago (Gen 3), and still got a 100%.

Indeed you are not.

[enderlord99]

I still much prefer "Ikea or Death!"

[snowblizz]

I still much prefer "Ikea or Death!"

Now see that one is super easy. Ironically only one I got wong is a chair I own 4 of.

That one won't challenge anyone in Sweden, not so much because many are familair with Ikea but that you cna tell if it's a proper name of a thing. Ikea uses Swedish placenames, given names and proper Swedish words for its items. Anything not clearly recognizable as a Swedish word was deathmetal.

[Eldan]

17/20, and I've never listened to Metal. But then, there were several mythological creatures in there and a few words where I could guess what they mean.