How Tokopedia’s Data Team Spent Their Day Off
By: Dwi Lucia Arfani
Tags: Tokopedia, Data Scientist, Data Analyst, Life At Tokopedia, Data Engineering

“Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships.” — Michael Jordan.

As jobbers, busy working hours are not only the ones that create story in our professional lives, but building a family at office is also one big factor which makes our daily routine colourful. FINALLY! For a moment, Tokopedia’s Data Team took a break and went outing together as one team. 29–30 November 2018 was a time for Tokopedia’s lovely Data Team to get lost. We spent our time to refresh our mind and bond with other teams within Data.

We arrived at Jambuluwuk around 10 AM. The place was beautiful, all greens, same as Tokopedia’s office (*wink*), but much more fresher, because there were real trees (haha!). After all our team gathered, outing committee gave an opening speech and handed over all outing events to the Event Organizer.

Tokopedia’s Data Team

PIC of Outing Committee Giving Speech

Outing Committee & Mr. EO

For the sake of our body, we did ice breaking, starting from creating a chain pattern with our hands to hold each others, until creating groups by counting numbers that were called out by Mr. EO.

We did laugh a lot during ice-breaking session. Then, we had a great lunch and a short break. In the afternoon, we were broken down into 4 groups which consisted of 13–15 people to play outbound games. The rule for this games was that each group had to go to four stations and was challenged to solve problem from each station.

At Station 1, we played “Empathy Ball”, in which we stood in circle and had to throw one ball to the left, and the person on our left should catch the ball. If any person failed to catch the ball, then the whole team failed. Pretty challenging, huh?

At Station 2, we played “Get the Ball”. Here, we had to play with water! We needed to cover all holes in one pipe while one person poured water into the pipe to get the ball inside the pipe out. Yippie, time to play wet!

At Station 3, we played “Move the ball”. This game showed impossible things can be done with a TEAM! We needed to move a table-tennis ball with just threads from start point to end point!

Last station was “Puzzle”. Here, we had to form a square by using pre-cut shapes. Seems easy, but it was actually harder than querying data.

Empathy Ball

Get the Ball

Move the ball

Puzzle

And, finally we had last challenge to save the candle. In this game, there were no groups. We, as a whole team, had to keep the candle lit while Mr EO was happily throwing bags of water at us. Time to get wetter :D

Save the candle

In the evening, we had a talk show with all team leads. Please welcome all the leads, Mr. Nathan, Mr. Sonny and Mr. Charlie. We shared information about how Tokopedia works now and what will be going on next year. To finish this night, we played “Guess the Word”. It was an easy game where all team members had to guess what word that was created from several pictures in the powerpoint. Thank you Qlea and Erika for bringing this games more absurd. :D. The winners of afternoon games were also announced by Mr. EO. Good job, guys!!

Mr. Charlie, Mr. Sonny, Mr. Nathan & Ms. Erika

Sharing Session

Sharing Session

Games

Games

1st Winner

2nd Winner

3rd Winner

On our last day at Jambuluwuk, we went trekking. We walked out of Jambuluwuk and breathed the fresh air around the village. After walking for a while, we took a rest and tried a game, called “Egrang”. It was quite difficult because we had to balance our legs and body while moving forward. But, we made it !!! And we also played Angklung. Each of us had to hold one part of the Angklung which represented one note to play “Burung kakak tua”. I guess, Data Team can also be a musician.

Trekking Time

Trekking Time

Snack Time

Team played egrang

Team played egrang

Team played angklung

Time flies so fast, we had a lot of stories in this outing, but we had to go back to Jakarta. We are grateful of the time we spent together. Can’t wait for next data team outing! Not only it refreshes our mood, but also it helps building our team to be stronger.

“Alone we can do so little, together we can do so much” — Helen Keller