Big onboarding events are notoriously cringe. The median experience is to take a bunch of semi-anxious, introverted people who will probably never actually work together, and force them to go through a bunch of energising and fun activities. Where "fun" and "energising" are or course highly subjective concepts when the activities are designed by HR extroverts.
At least you can hope to pick up a nice laptop. So, I'm fiddling around with the thing to get my mail and whatever working. It turns out to be a windows box full of corporate spyware, I'm not happy, but whatever. Deal with it. Then this guy, who's also hired to make the computers go brrr, leans over and asks me
"How did you switch between those two windows so quickly?"
"Hey, what do you mean? What did you see me do exactly?"
"Well, your mail changed to your browser instantaneously. That's really cool! How did you do that?"
Cynically... When your organisation has meandered down so deep into the valley of the shadow of death that the people interviewing your data scientists think that the R language is a tool called "Are", the blame is spread so thinly that no one is really responsible anymore. In a closed environment where everybody's stupid, the only final sin is sticking your head above the parapet.
However, it did feel good (and slightly weird) teaching this twenty-something IT professional the power of alt+tab. It's been ~ 10 years since this encounter. Imagine the kilometers of mouse dragging to and from his task bar that I saved him since.