LinkedIn Team Building with Robots and Battles
A Marketing Operations team hosted a LinkedIn Team Building onsite at their Mountain View Headquarters. This group supported the marketing department by creating and maintaining all of the complex databases and algorithms that go into finding new clients, making new connections, and closing deals. They were an interesting mix of technological “know-how” and marketing speak – powerful!
The team pictured above won the build competition with a Top 5% time of 34:10 (thirty four minutes and 10 seconds). After hearing their time they changed their team name appropriately to “Top 5.” It was a great come from behind victory as they started very slow and lagged behind the other teams for several minutes. Finally as looked around and realized they were behind the other teams, a fierce competitive streak took over and they plunged head-in and knee deep into Robot building with impressive results.
One key tip they picked up in their “code-red” analysis was that completing the robot frame was holding back the other teams.They immediately saw an opening and plunged resources into frame completion. Their focus paid off as they came out the other end ahead, frame built, and component parts added and completed in real time and in order. The difference being other teams had completed their component parts in advance, but were waiting on the frame. Top 5’s strategy after falling behind was definitely walking a tight rope as they were completing component parts as they needed them rather than the luxury of completing them in advance and getting to double check their work.
Once the robots were completed some cold beer came out of an invisible cooler and the battles began! This LinkedIn team building actually completed an entire team-versus-team battle round with each person getting to battle someone on the other team. They moved the battles to the concrete floor in the hallway for better speed and a sliding effect possible on polished concrete. The yelling and cheering were great advertising for our event as people came by curious what it was all about. We entered 4 bots into the final melee – two from the teams and two we brought pre-built – and had one final and furious melee before calling it quits.
A huge thank you to LinkedIn and the marketing operations team for a fun and exciting robot battle event!
Robot Team Building
