Made in Waterloo
This iconic engineering symbol (also a piece of jewellery) is a tradition in engineering in Canada, given to students upon graduation as a reminder of their professional commitment.
What is the Iron Ring?
This software development methodology, popular in modern agile practices, emphasizes iterative releases and feedback loops, often associated with two-week work cycles known as sprints.
What is Scrum?
This sandbox game, now owned by Microsoft, lets players mine, craft, and build in a blocky world.
What is Minecraft?
This part of a cat’s body helps it balance and communicate, and is often the first thing to puff up when it’s scared.
What is the tail?
This 2021 film, starring Timothée Chalamet and based on Frank Herbert’s sci fi novel, is part of a planned two-part epic saga set in a distant future on a desert planet.
What is Dune?
Waterloo is often referred to as the birthplace of this Canadian tech giant, originally known for making smartphones, which was founded by alumni in 1999.
What is Blackberry?
This cloud monitoring company, known for its real-time observability platform, went public in 2019 and is now valued at over $30 billion. Its services are widely used to monitor infrastructure, application performance, and logs and Saksham was a PM co-op here.
What is Datadog?
This popular PC gaming platform by Valve lets you buy, download, and play thousands of video games. It has faced criticism over its 30% revenue cut from developers.
What is Steam?
This breed of cat, adopted by Rachel in Friends, is known for being hairless, high-maintenance, and looking like a wrinkly alien.
What is the Sphynx?
Before becoming a news anchor, Robin Scherbatsky, from the tv show How I Met Your Mother, had a brief Canadian pop music career under this stage name.
Who is Robin Sparkles?
One of these courses is NOT a first year course in the Software Engineering Program at Waterloo:
What is SE 103: Introduction to Web Development?
In 2019, this fintech unicorn raised $1 billion in a funding round led by SoftBank, solidifying its position as one of the most valuable private companies in the world at the time.
What is Stripe?
This game development platform, known for its C# scripting, is widely used for mobile and indie games.
What is Unity?
This famous internet meme cat is known for its grumpy expression and sarcastic captions.
Who is Grumpy Cat?
In the tv show Friends, the character Gunther, a frequent background character, worked as a barista at Central Perk. He had a massive crush on this character, often secretly pining for them throughout the show.
Who is Rachel Green?
As of Aug 2019, there are __ shawarma restaurants in the UW Plaza.
What is 3?
Shawerma Plus, Lazeez, iPotato
This venture capital firm made headlines in 2015 when partner Ellen Pao filed a high-profile gender discrimination lawsuit and lost.
What is Kleiner Perkins?
In 2022, Microsoft made headlines with its $68.7 billion deal to acquire this company behind Call of Duty and World of Warcraft.
What is Activision Blizzard?
This character is the long-suffering owner of Garfield, often seen trying (and failing) to control his lazy, lasagna-loving cat.
Who is John Arbuckle?
This U.S. state is the only one with a one-syllable name.
What is Maine?
This Canadian tech company based in Montreal, founded in 2000, specializes in providing web-based security solutions and was acquired by Bell Canada in 2011 and was Saksham's first co-op term.
What is Radialpoint?
Originally developed at Facebook, this distributed SQL query engine powers massive data analytics jobs and was later spun out into the open-source project known as Trino and was the team at Facebook that Saksham worked in.
What is PrestoDB?
This popular game engine created by Epic Games powers hits like Fortnite.
What is Unreal Engine?
This pop superstar played Bombalurina in the 2019 film adaptation of the musical Cats, where she performed the song "Macavity: The Mystery Cat."
Who is Taylor Swift?
This Connecticut city is home to one of the Ivy League universities, has a rich history in American culture, and is famous for its pizza, often called "apizza," with a particular spot, Frank Pepe's, gaining national acclaim.
What is New Haven?