eduardo | b-side #2

Getting Down to Business

1. What is your job profile?

Software Engineer, Web Developer, Full-Stack Engineer but mainly Software Engineer.

2. Name one professional skill that you are currently trying to develop?

Web map development.

3. What’s your go-to productivity trick?

For "full on" focus I need either absolute silence or I put on some music. I need to somehow dive into my world and this is the way I manage to do it.

4. What characteristic or behavior do you most attribute your success to, and why?

Positive thinking.

5. What have you learned from your worst job experience?

For me the worst experience was when my project manager left. When someone key leaves a company there’s a void. Since, in this case, there was no replacement it was hard to decide to whom pass the knowledge on and to whom I was reporting.

6. Talk to us about something unexpected you have encountered in your company?

A family environment.

7. What led you to this career?

My high school background was in economics, but I couldn’t imagine myself studying something related with business or economics, which would’ve been the normal pathway. At the time, in face of the options I had, computer science seemed like a good one.

8. What’s the biggest misconception people have about your position?

I wouldn't say that this is a misconception only about my position, it is more about people that work in IT, in general, which is that we are lab rats and nerds, with no social life.

9. If you could add one thing to your company office, what would it be?

A nap area.

10. Would you rather work very hard at a rewarding job or hardly work at a job that isn’t rewarding?

I rather work hard in something that I like, than hardly work at something that I don’t like.

11. Do you feel like you have made mistakes in your career? Did you learn a valuable lesson from those mistakes?

So far, I don't feel like I have done any mistakes.

Let’s get Personal

12. If you could snap your fingers and become an expert in something, what would it be?

Football Manager.

13. What advice would you give to your teenage self?

I would tell my young self to study a bit harder, during college. I would also tell my young self to do an internship instead of spending so much time playing PlayStation.

14. What drains you outside of work?

My master thesis.

15. What’s one thing most people don’t know about you?

That I have a bad temper. Not a lot of people have seen it.

16. What’s one thing you’re currently trying to make a habit?

I am trying to eat less meat.

17. What’s something that you’re bad at?

Decoration.

18. What’s the best compliment you’ve ever received?

That I am a happy person.

19. What would we most likely find you doing on the weekend?

Hanging out with my girlfriend or watching Benfica’s football games.

20. If you could trade places with anyone for a day, who would you choose?

Donald Trump.

21. What quote or saying do people spout but is complete BS?

Don't leave for tomorrow what you can do today“ – Portuguese Saying (“Não deixes para amanhã o que podes fazer hoje”)

22. If you had to pick one age to be permanently, which age would you choose?

None. I like getting older.

Time to have fun

23. Do you have a hidden talent? What is it?

Yes. Dancing!

24. If you could only eat one item for every meal for the rest of your life, what would it be?

Bananas.

25. What’s one hobby you’d love to get into?

Running or swimming.

26. What’s one item you want to own that you don’t?

A Campervan.

27. What’s the weirdest food you’ve ever eaten?

I ate crickets the other day. I also eat snails, but that’s a typical dish here (Portugal).

28. What’s the most interesting thing you’ve read or seen this week?

“What the Health” – Netflix documentary.

29. Would you rather have unlimited international first-class tickets or never have to pay for food at restaurants?

“What the Health” – Netflix documentary.

30. What’s one item you can’t leave your house or apartment without?

Wallet, keys and phone – I NEVER leave without these 3 items.

31. Who is the messiest person you know?

Myself!

32. What’s the first concert you ever went to?

Lenny Kravitz.

33. What’s the top destination on your must-visit list?

I don’t have a top destination, but I’d like to travel around Europe, without a time frame, on a campervan.

34. Do you think it is important for companies to get to know people beyond their job profile?

Yes.