Sara Gorjão is a great recruiter that has helped me a lot over the past years. I’ve asked her for developer profiles very complicated. For example, Clojure developers or developers willing to learn Clojure, seasoned functional QAs with automation experience, senior developers, etc.

And she always delivers great people. She doesn’t have a technical background but it’s amazing the technical fit of the profiles she finds and how she can match them to our needs. And if in the technical side the candidates will already be in our ballpark, her capacity to deliver candidates that match our culture is outstanding.

Sara is a one-department-recruiting-pipeline. It has definitely been a competitive advantage to have been teaming up with her. She is responsible for the Permanent Placement Branch inside of KWAN, which means that if you want to hire talent to work directly on your team - to be hired directly by you - she would be the person to talk to.

Feeling recognised is about employees feeling that the company really values their work and presence at the company. That the company has a long term vision for their relationship and is actively invested in growing them.

I’ve know Tiago Sousa for a really long time. We were both students at ISEL, we did some classes together and actually ended up doing our thesis together. We worked at Orion’s Belt, a massive online multiplayer game, and it was one of the best experiences I had as a developer.

We then started working at Safira and then moved together to PDM where we worked on several projects. We later parted ways and each one of us had our own path.

Tiago is a seasoned developer and currently is working at Sky. He had several team leaders and managers and on this interview I try to understand what’s his opinion on being the best manager.

Joining a new company, and sometimes even a new team, can be a daunting experience. It’s all the new things that change and that we need to accommodate for. A new routine, a new office with maybe a new commute route, all the new tools and processes that may be different. And new people to interact with.

There are projects that one one wants to work at. There could be many reasons for that and I list here some that I’ve seen. Being aware of these problems is the first step to start fixing them. And most importantly, by being aware of these problems we can start from day one implementing processes that prevent these kind of things from happening.