How a 2D Game Pitch Transformed Team Engagement: Insights from a Software Engineer's Vision
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INTERVIEWER
I, I'm assuming based on the resume that you sent me uh as a senior software engineer you've been handed a situation where you say hey go solve this problem, right? You're just you're just kind of given a broad problem. But sometimes that's gonna require you to uh come up with new ideas that maybe aren't being pursued or have a broader vision for what needs to happen right get people to go along with what you're doing so how do you as a as a you know kind of an up and coming engineering leader, how do you drive adoption for your vision and for your ideas?
CANDIDATE
Wow, uh. So first, I will pitch my idea about why I think this idea is a uh good thing to do. And then I will try to make a MPM uh MVP versions for um my team's people to take a look at like how this MVP actually looks like. And then, uh, I will take their feedback after my demo, and try to improve my MVP version again. And To see if They will try to adopt my ideas. Uh, one of the example I will say is Um, 2 years ago, there, there is a startup that, uh, pretty popular. It's called Gathertown, which is they are trying to, uh, gather.town. So, uh, they are making a 2D game inside a Zoom-like meeting. So, uh, with this like pandemic and remote experiences, they want to have the users more engaged. Uh, into a meeting or into a remote virtual, uh, working environment. And I think this maybe is the trend to go. So, um, I try to implement a 2D game into teams, which means when you, um, the audience that they are inside a meeting, and then they can move along the player characters themselves, and Like pretending they are in a virtual office together. And I presented this ideas, uh, and try to pitch like why it's useful cause also like in Teams is a um heavily EDU users uh product and this will be significant for our students to be more engaged and is under a game mode um environment. So, my answer to your question is, I will try to make an MVP to make it more effective for the audience to think that, oh, this MVP maybe actually work and we can try to Um, take on it. Of course, I think the, uh, the ongoing step will be, I will need to do more research and gather more, uh, market data in order to prove that my idea is real. So while I'm presenting this uh MVP I Also, let the audience knows that uh Gather.com, they actually raised $54 million after just like one year launch, and they see like, heavy serving user space uh after one year. So I think that's the way to go. And this will be how I try to ask my teams to adopt my idea.
INTERVIEWER
OK, 1 2nd. So Uh, when you present your ideas in this manner. How do you know how well your idea is being adopted by other teams or partners?
CANDIDATE
Mm, based on the, uh, sign up speed and also based on the iteration based on the speed, uh, sign up, like how many partners or other teams sign
INTERVIEWER
up
CANDIDATE
signing up for signing up for this new idea and then also for the iteration, like after they pick up this idea, uh, do they, uh, provide, uh, any feedback, um. For, for us. And then, uh, are they providing feedbacks frequently? And also, are they uh catching up for the latest updates for my ideas. So I think those will be some valid points for me to understand mm how effective the other teams are taking my idea or implementing my ideas.
INTERVIEWER
OK. But how are you staying connected to? Uh, the details, right, and, and, you know, like looking at how many user signups you have is kind of an ephemeral metric and it's a bit fleeting as well as a vanity metric and then awaiting for feedback. It's kind of again it's a it's a. It's, it's from, from a process point of view you're, it's, it's kind of hope is a strategy, right? You're hoping they give you feedback and you're, you're taking as a signal. If they don't give you feedback then they must not be interested, which feels a little bit broken to me. So how do you stay on top of the details when you've had a number of partners with varying levels of verbosity in their feedback? How do you stay on top of whether or not they're actually. Designing to your implementation or not.
CANDIDATE
Hm. So maybe when uh the partners initially sign up for these ideas, uh, we set a deadline, uh, when they will roll out these ideas. And by the deadline, we try to reach Reach back to reach out to the partner's team again to see if they are meeting this deadline. And if they are not, then we know that the implementation is actually not going very well. But if like majority of the partners are actually able to meet their deadlines for the rollout, then I know that the implementation is doing OK so far, it's on track.
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