The Customer is Always Right! Right?
Facts & Figures
I'm here to lead, not to read
Hobby Lobby
Putting the "Engineer" in Customer Engineer
100

Current stock price of this customer of ours is hovering around $150

Who is ManH? 

100

Our current called 2021 forecast for Retail ISV rounded to the nearest million $. 

What is $45M?

100

This leader's favorite book is Midnights Children. It portrays India's transition from British colonial rule to independence and the partition of India. It is considered an example of postcolonial, postmodern, and magical realist literature


Who is Jose? 

100

Although he is not a motivational speaker (at least not that I know of, anyway) he technically COULD live in a VAN DOWN BY THE RIVER. 


(Zeba if you don't get this reference, please youtube it)

Who is Shane? 

100

What is the output of this Java code?


String mesg = "Answer is ";
int sum = 1 + 2;
System.out.println(mesg + sum);

What is "Answer is 3"? 

200

This company's namesake is inspired by the British intelligence agency, and its nine initial team members who formed it in 2001

What is Mi9? 

200

This Retail customer is approaching 200TB of storage in GCS and BQ

Who is Walmart? 

200

This fearless leader's favorite author is Dominque Lapierre (French Writer), who wrote and excellent book on the Bhopal Tragedy (Freedom at Midnight)



Who is Vikas? 

200

This teammate of ours has been known to crack a craft beer and hit the sticks. (Sticks as in joysticks, not drumsticks)

Who is Matt? 

200

Unlike Arrays, Linked Lists, Stack and queues, which are linear data structures, these are hierarchical data structures.

What are trees? 

300

"This is just Vish's buddy and we're doing him a favor and we probably won't hear about this customer ever again in 6 weeks." Aaron said confidently incorrect before working with this startup.

Who is Banyan? 

300

The total CPU capacity landed for BFCM customers in 2021 (rounded to nearest million)

What is 11 million? 

300

Sapiens - A Brief History of Humankind is this leader's favorite book.

Who is Vish? 

300

High intensity interval Training aka HIIT is a favorite pastime of this workout junkie CE on our team.

Who is Zeba? 

300

Vim or Emacs. 

What is "oh so that's what you want to do today, fight?"

400

The World's #1 Commerce Experience Cloud. Or at least that's what their website says

Who is Bloomreach? 

400

At 13 years 7 months, this Googler is the longest tenured in Jose's org.

Who is Wamberg? 

400

This Hoosier is the author of Slaughterhouse Five and is among Aaron's favorites. 

Who is Kurt Vonnegut? 

400

This Renaissance Man counts Reddit, Poker, Podcasts, Snowboarding, Biking, Golf, and Distributed Systems as his favorite hobbies

Who is Greg? 

400

You have 250,000 devices which produce a JSON device status event every 10 seconds. You want to capture this event data for outlier time series analysis. What should you do?

What is "Ship the data into Cloud Bigtable. Use the Cloud Bigtable cbt tool to display device outlier data based on your business requirements." ?

500

This customer of ours claims it will help retailers "survive the retail apocalypse" 

Who is AWM? 

500

Snap + Bigfoot (Apple) combined are approaching this milestone of GCP spend in 2021.

What is one billllllionnnnnnnn dollars? 

500

This big wig (think like 8 levels above Aaron) loves "Trillion Dollar Coach" by Bill Campbell.

Who is Sundar?
500

Despite COVID's best efforts, Aaron loves to do this whenever he can.

What is travel? 

500

The CAP Theorem States...this

What is? 

  • C: consistency, which implies a single value for shared data
  • A: 100% availability, for both reads and updates
  • P: tolerance to network partitions
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