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This is hilarious. Would be great as the first round of technical interviews. Pokemon trivia: Ekans and Arbok are reversed Snake and Kobra.

dogma1138 5y ago
How would this be a good test in a technical interview? Even if you are hiring “Big Data” folks most of them wouldn’t and shouldn’t know half of these products and companies. Not to mention that it doesn’t tell you if the person knows the products or if they are just a huge Pokémon fan... If anyone uses this as candidate assessment tool I would expect anyone with any shred of dignity to walk out.
- Agentlien 5y ago
  I think it would be a great interview question to weed out companies I wouldn't want to work for.
- macando 5y ago
  Hey, I was just kidding. It might be useful to screen recruiters not candidates. I think the posted app was inspired by this image: https://i.imgur.com/r0SEEoh.jpg https://i.imgur.com/r0SEEoh.jpg
  - dogma1138 5y ago
    These days it’s hard to tell. As for filtering recruiters I think it’s a very SV centric problem and also quite a privileged problem to have. It’s funny as long as you don’t actually need a job because your rent is due.
    - ric2b 5y ago
      But it's still a problem and if the recruitment landscape improves it will also help those who have their rent due.
      - dogma1138 5y ago
        It maybe a problem but from my experience most people who take the piss out of recruitment at least here in the U.K. tend to be the ones who think they are top 0.1% talent but in reality are far from it. True top talent has the luxury of usually not having to deal with recruiters in the first place and for the rest of us in the middle we know it sucks but it’s something most of us learn to deal with rather easily. The best tech recruiters I worked with were also the ones who didn’t know anything and didn’t care, and it’s fine. I want a recruiter to be able to understand what kind of a role I want to have at a high level and what would the next challenge I want to take on, tech lead, people’s manager, building something from the ground up at a startup etc rather than try to pattern much my CV to some job posting. The technobabble only detracts from the recruitment process I don’t care if they understand the difference between React and React Native or don’t.
        paledot 5y ago
        I don't care if a recruiter knows the difference between React and React Native, but I do care that they know the difference between Java and JavaScript.
  - asxd 5y ago
    At the bottom it says it was inspired by a google form, but I like this explanation way more.
- tim333 5y ago
  Can confirm. Did well at the quiz due entirely to wasting too much time on Pokemon.
  - toxik 5y ago
    The questions Seahorse followed by Horsea got a laugh out of me
- booleandilemma 5y ago
  It would only be slightly less ridiculous than what really happens in technical interviews.
jkhdigital 5y ago
Yeah, but what confuses me about these two is that in the original Japanese the evolution is still Arbok but the base version is... Arbo. Huh? Makes you wonder what the original naming idea was.
- Tade0 5y ago
  The original name is written as "アーボ" - "Ābo" - reverse the character order and you get "ボア" - "Boa" (the horizontal line is known as the long vowel mark, so it can be omitted).
  - daveFNbuck 5y ago
    But then the Japanese for Arbok is "アーボック" according to [1], but reversing the character order doesn't quite result in cobra. Does this have a different hidden meaning, or are people supposed to insert the r sound and reverse it like it's in English? [1] https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Arbok_(Pok%C3%A9mon) https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Arbok_(Pok%C3%A9mon)
    - jkhdigital 5y ago
      Right, that's my point--Arbok seems to be a phoneticization of the reversed English word, but interpreting Arbo as Boa is reversing the phoneticized word i.e. the operations are applied in reverse. Maybe they were just playing fast and loose with the naming patterns XD
    - deleted 5y ago
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    - wk_end 5y ago
      It’s possible - though maybe a stretch? - that the “ku” is supposed to allude to “-kun”, a Japanese suffix kind of akin to “Jr.” in English. Which would make this whole thing a pretty intricate and impressive multilingual pun.
yawnxyz 5y ago
for the longest time I confused Pokemon names with Harry Potter names... Erised? Diagon? Draco? Malfoy? Nagini? Idk I always got confused haha
- paledot 5y ago
  Same naming principle. Erised is desire backwards, DiagonAll[e]y, etc.

dogma1138 5y ago

How would this be a good test in a technical interview? Even if you are hiring “Big Data” folks most of them wouldn’t and shouldn’t know half of these products and companies. Not to mention that it doesn’t tell you if the person knows the products or if they are just a huge Pokémon fan... If anyone uses this as candidate assessment tool I would expect anyone with any shred of dignity to walk out.

Agentlien 5y ago
I think it would be a great interview question to weed out companies I wouldn't want to work for.
macando 5y ago
Hey, I was just kidding. It might be useful to screen recruiters not candidates. I think the posted app was inspired by this image: https://i.imgur.com/r0SEEoh.jpg https://i.imgur.com/r0SEEoh.jpg
- dogma1138 5y ago
  These days it’s hard to tell. As for filtering recruiters I think it’s a very SV centric problem and also quite a privileged problem to have. It’s funny as long as you don’t actually need a job because your rent is due.
  - ric2b 5y ago
    But it's still a problem and if the recruitment landscape improves it will also help those who have their rent due.
    - dogma1138 5y ago
      It maybe a problem but from my experience most people who take the piss out of recruitment at least here in the U.K. tend to be the ones who think they are top 0.1% talent but in reality are far from it. True top talent has the luxury of usually not having to deal with recruiters in the first place and for the rest of us in the middle we know it sucks but it’s something most of us learn to deal with rather easily. The best tech recruiters I worked with were also the ones who didn’t know anything and didn’t care, and it’s fine. I want a recruiter to be able to understand what kind of a role I want to have at a high level and what would the next challenge I want to take on, tech lead, people’s manager, building something from the ground up at a startup etc rather than try to pattern much my CV to some job posting. The technobabble only detracts from the recruitment process I don’t care if they understand the difference between React and React Native or don’t.
      - paledot 5y ago
        I don't care if a recruiter knows the difference between React and React Native, but I do care that they know the difference between Java and JavaScript.
- asxd 5y ago
  At the bottom it says it was inspired by a google form, but I like this explanation way more.
tim333 5y ago
Can confirm. Did well at the quiz due entirely to wasting too much time on Pokemon.
- toxik 5y ago
  The questions Seahorse followed by Horsea got a laugh out of me
booleandilemma 5y ago
It would only be slightly less ridiculous than what really happens in technical interviews.

jkhdigital 5y ago

Yeah, but what confuses me about these two is that in the original Japanese the evolution is still Arbok but the base version is... Arbo. Huh? Makes you wonder what the original naming idea was.

Tade0 5y ago
The original name is written as "アーボ" - "Ābo" - reverse the character order and you get "ボア" - "Boa" (the horizontal line is known as the long vowel mark, so it can be omitted).
- daveFNbuck 5y ago
  But then the Japanese for Arbok is "アーボック" according to [1], but reversing the character order doesn't quite result in cobra. Does this have a different hidden meaning, or are people supposed to insert the r sound and reverse it like it's in English? [1] https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Arbok_(Pok%C3%A9mon) https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Arbok_(Pok%C3%A9mon)
  - jkhdigital 5y ago
    Right, that's my point--Arbok seems to be a phoneticization of the reversed English word, but interpreting Arbo as Boa is reversing the phoneticized word i.e. the operations are applied in reverse. Maybe they were just playing fast and loose with the naming patterns XD
  - deleted 5y ago
    [deleted]
  - wk_end 5y ago
    It’s possible - though maybe a stretch? - that the “ku” is supposed to allude to “-kun”, a Japanese suffix kind of akin to “Jr.” in English. Which would make this whole thing a pretty intricate and impressive multilingual pun.

yawnxyz 5y ago

for the longest time I confused Pokemon names with Harry Potter names... Erised? Diagon? Draco? Malfoy? Nagini? Idk I always got confused haha

paledot 5y ago
Same naming principle. Erised is desire backwards, DiagonAll[e]y, etc.