Meeting Title: 30 Min Meeting between Amber Siru Lin and Carlos Octavio Razo- Project Management Coordinator- Blue People Date: 2025-07-15 Meeting participants: Carlos Razo, Amber Lin, Daniela


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1 00:00:02.560 00:00:03.660 Amber Lin: Hi, Carlos!

2 00:00:03.660 00:00:04.830 Carlos Razo: Hi amber.

3 00:00:05.180 00:00:28.600 Amber Lin: Hi! So a quick overview of this interview, and it’s the 1st time you you’re talking to Brainforge. So a quick intro about me. So I’m the current project manager at Brainforge. I joined about, say, 4 months ago. And currently I manage a few clients. And then we’re currently in the process of building our project management function.

4 00:00:29.090 00:00:57.059 Amber Lin: And so how this interview will be structured is that we have a list of few questions that we ask in screening rounds for each candidate, and then, at the end of the interview, feel we’ll have a space for you to ask any questions you want, and then we’ll. We’ll continue on to the next rounds. If I’ll report to my supervisor on how this went, and then they will decide if we want to move on to the next round.

5 00:00:57.720 00:00:58.480 Carlos Razo: Okay.

6 00:00:58.970 00:01:05.329 Amber Lin: Yeah, so let me pull that out.

7 00:01:06.460 00:01:17.720 Amber Lin: Okay, so the 1st question I have is, I want to know, what are your career goals.

8 00:01:21.675 00:01:32.710 Carlos Razo: The 1st or or the principal goal in in my career is looking for stability in high enterprise.

9 00:01:33.310 00:01:43.449 Carlos Razo: That allow me to rice through any level and growing in professional.

10 00:01:46.450 00:01:52.819 Carlos Razo: Yeah, I I like to learn a lot of new new tools and.

11 00:01:53.440 00:01:57.310 Carlos Razo: To get new skills. I like to work in

12 00:01:57.540 00:02:05.639 Carlos Razo: in some places where where I can learn new new things. I, eager for learning

13 00:02:05.780 00:02:10.389 Carlos Razo: even in my house, I I take courses or

14 00:02:10.880 00:02:15.739 Carlos Razo: look videos or or something. I I like learning a lot.

15 00:02:18.120 00:02:28.089 Amber Lin: okay, thank you for answering that. And the second question, we have is what are you really good at professionally.

16 00:02:31.370 00:02:34.869 Carlos Razo: I barely hear you. Can you repeat the question? Please?

17 00:02:35.892 00:02:39.820 Amber Lin: My question was, What are you really good at? Professionally.

18 00:02:41.140 00:02:52.520 Carlos Razo: I’m a very organized people. I like to solve problems. I am very good solving problems, and then

19 00:02:52.890 00:03:01.240 Carlos Razo: put in practice all all my knowledge and my skills as a private player. I’m good at that.

20 00:03:02.320 00:03:16.959 Amber Lin: Okay, can you elaborate a little bit about what you mean when you say solving problems or organizing or putting in place practice like knowledge and things you’ve learned. Can you give me examples of what that means?

21 00:03:17.100 00:03:25.090 Carlos Razo: Okay, I I am a electronic engineer. I I enjoy math and physics and all.

22 00:03:25.988 00:03:27.301 Carlos Razo: All that is.

23 00:03:28.630 00:03:34.269 Carlos Razo: And I like solve problems like puzzles, logic problems, something like that.

24 00:03:34.610 00:03:45.095 Carlos Razo: But in in the job, and as a project manager when some project is not

25 00:03:46.560 00:03:49.760 Carlos Razo: in full with the project plan.

26 00:03:49.920 00:03:53.990 Carlos Razo: Some projects, or maybe all projects, have

27 00:03:54.180 00:04:03.109 Carlos Razo: a little deviation from the project plan. There are. No, no, there not exist perfect planning.

28 00:04:03.420 00:04:12.860 Carlos Razo: You many times. Don’t know what’s gonna happen in the project, with the resources, with with the the team, the the

29 00:04:13.160 00:04:18.450 Carlos Razo: the even with the requirements. Sometimes

30 00:04:18.630 00:04:26.820 Carlos Razo: here in Mexico happens a lot that change the requirements. You start the project with with some goal and

31 00:04:27.140 00:04:29.890 Carlos Razo: and looking for some something, but but

32 00:04:31.180 00:04:39.769 Carlos Razo: one month later they want to change the requirements, and you have to adjust the resources, adjust the the

33 00:04:39.990 00:04:50.820 Carlos Razo: the the plan, adjust anything. And I have to solve that type of problems and look forward for some issues or some

34 00:04:51.720 00:04:55.479 Carlos Razo: things that could happen and avoid avoid to happen.

35 00:04:55.690 00:05:02.370 Carlos Razo: You are working for reduce the

36 00:05:03.240 00:05:10.200 Carlos Razo: the percentage of probability that that things happen to to issue appears in the project.

37 00:05:11.053 00:05:12.180 Amber Lin: Okay, awesome.

38 00:05:12.794 00:05:20.680 Amber Lin: What about when you said organizing, do you mean organizing people or organizing knowledge, what do you mean by organizing.

39 00:05:21.050 00:05:27.720 Carlos Razo: Organize it in my work. I’m a very practical person. I

40 00:05:28.516 00:05:42.959 Carlos Razo: use a a notebook for right the things I have to do. And maybe in some electronic tools or some software tools

41 00:05:43.270 00:05:52.800 Carlos Razo: to help me to check, I have to do. I’m very organized and and try to

42 00:05:53.370 00:06:01.760 Carlos Razo: organize that in the project plan and work with with my team for for an organized work.

43 00:06:04.150 00:06:04.900 Amber Lin: Okay?

44 00:06:05.916 00:06:07.209 Amber Lin: That’s great.

45 00:06:07.826 00:06:16.639 Amber Lin: Then the last point you said was to put in practice on knowledge that you’ve learned before can you give me an example of when that happened.

46 00:06:18.760 00:06:31.630 Carlos Razo: Yeah. For example, here in Mexico, we use mixed methodologies. We use weatherfall methodologies and agile methodologies.

47 00:06:31.820 00:06:36.950 Carlos Razo: So we in Mexico.

48 00:06:37.250 00:06:48.010 Carlos Razo: like a lot to use a screen so I tried to apply my knowledge in this room as a screen master.

49 00:06:48.760 00:06:55.249 Carlos Razo: A, taking the the ceremonies from from his room

50 00:06:55.770 00:07:03.429 Carlos Razo: and and working in an agile and yeah, like way to

51 00:07:04.050 00:07:07.640 Carlos Razo: advancing the project, we have the

52 00:07:07.830 00:07:18.160 Carlos Razo: daily meeting. We have the retrospective. We have all the ceremonies in in scrum, and try to use

53 00:07:18.460 00:07:20.429 Carlos Razo: for the good of the project.

54 00:07:20.880 00:07:23.440 Amber Lin: Hmm, okay, sounds great.

55 00:07:24.170 00:07:36.209 Amber Lin: And then the 3rd question we have is very similar to the second one. It’s the opposite of that. So that one asks, What are you not good at, or not interested in doing professionally?

56 00:07:39.080 00:07:45.479 Carlos Razo: I’m not interested in, been in, in

57 00:07:47.280 00:07:51.450 Carlos Razo: is not growing up, in the, in, the, in, the job, in

58 00:07:52.510 00:08:04.180 Carlos Razo: be, in the I look at stability. It’s it’s contradictory. Because in in my 1st or my second answer, I said, I look for stability. I look at stability, but

59 00:08:04.300 00:08:10.470 Carlos Razo: I like to grow up in in the job. Not not being the same job for

60 00:08:11.060 00:08:17.909 Carlos Razo: all my left. I I, as I say, I like to learn, and I like to

61 00:08:18.330 00:08:22.150 Carlos Razo: share my knowledge with with the people. I I like to

62 00:08:23.210 00:08:32.380 Carlos Razo: enhance the people for learn more and for grow up. So I I want to grow up. I don’t want to be

63 00:08:35.190 00:08:42.419 Carlos Razo: stated in in some place doing the the same thing for for a life. Yes.

64 00:08:45.400 00:08:46.180 Amber Lin: Okay.

65 00:08:46.559 00:09:00.239 Amber Lin: Then what would you say that you are not good at doing professionally? Thank you for answering what you’re not interested in, and I’ll have a I have an answer for that in a bit, but I want to know what you think. You are not good at professionally.

66 00:09:00.780 00:09:07.980 Carlos Razo: I. There are a lot of methodologies I don’t even know, or or some tools I don’t don’t even know.

67 00:09:08.210 00:09:16.670 Carlos Razo: For example, here for the break I have to use linear linear. I don’t know linear. But I

68 00:09:16.810 00:09:22.090 Carlos Razo: I can learn. I can know how to to use that tool. No.

69 00:09:22.200 00:09:27.989 Carlos Razo: but but today I don’t know even if the linear tool exists.

70 00:09:28.290 00:09:39.649 Carlos Razo: So I started to find what is linear, what it’s about, what I need to to use it how I can use it for for the project.

71 00:09:40.605 00:09:41.120 Amber Lin: Okay.

72 00:09:41.120 00:09:45.389 Carlos Razo: There. There are many tools I don’t know, and every day

73 00:09:45.780 00:09:49.210 Carlos Razo: I are new tools in the market, and

74 00:09:49.390 00:09:55.860 Carlos Razo: new tools for different projects that that I don’t don’t familiar with.

75 00:09:56.610 00:09:57.550 Amber Lin: I see.

76 00:09:58.380 00:10:17.849 Amber Lin: Okay, I think the last question I have, and after that feel free to ask me any questions. So the last question we have is, who were your last 5 bosses, and how will they each rate your performance on a 1 to 10 scale when we talk to them?

77 00:10:22.310 00:10:32.460 Carlos Razo: My last boss was very helpful, was I was working in a finance company.

78 00:10:34.074 00:10:45.169 Carlos Razo: It’s it’s like very familiar, a fine form for working. I

79 00:10:45.270 00:10:57.090 Carlos Razo: I feel very supported by by my boss, and was great working there the previous one.

80 00:10:57.617 00:11:06.239 Amber Lin: Sorry, I think, for the last one. Would you say? What? How would he rate your performance on a 1 to 10 scale when we talk to them.

81 00:11:08.875 00:11:14.310 Carlos Razo: He let me free to work.

82 00:11:15.080 00:11:23.660 Carlos Razo: Send me dates, or send me goals, or send me send. Send me some things I have to

83 00:11:25.060 00:11:31.359 Carlos Razo: to do so. i i i do my my work.

84 00:11:32.300 00:11:39.100 Carlos Razo: but but I I feel free for asking for some advice or for some help if I need it.

85 00:11:39.670 00:11:42.860 Carlos Razo: And that’s the the way we worked.

86 00:11:47.870 00:11:50.750 Carlos Razo: I don’t know if that answers the the question.

87 00:11:50.970 00:11:59.320 Amber Lin: Oh, my question was that, how would he rate you on a 1 to 10 scale? Would he rate you a 5, a 10.

88 00:11:59.670 00:12:03.150 Carlos Razo: My right. I write him.

89 00:12:03.820 00:12:05.740 Amber Lin: He would, how he would rate you.

90 00:12:07.324 00:12:08.539 Carlos Razo: I don’t know.

91 00:12:08.940 00:12:11.980 Carlos Razo: Maybe 9.

92 00:12:14.050 00:12:18.700 Carlos Razo: Because no, I wasn’t perfect, but I do very well.

93 00:12:19.630 00:12:23.719 Amber Lin: Okay. So he would be very happy with your performance when we call him.

94 00:12:24.240 00:12:24.760 Carlos Razo: Yes.

95 00:12:24.990 00:12:29.270 Amber Lin: Okay, that’s really great to hear. What about the boss before that.

96 00:12:30.515 00:12:36.300 Carlos Razo: The guards are very complicated situation the the company is

97 00:12:39.630 00:12:48.740 Carlos Razo: have very many functions. Some of them is a bank and selling

98 00:12:50.450 00:12:55.259 Carlos Razo: groceries or a departmental store. It’s it’s many

99 00:12:55.810 00:13:03.180 Carlos Razo: business areas from that company. And I was working in the financial area.

100 00:13:03.180 00:13:03.740 Amber Lin: Hmm.

101 00:13:04.390 00:13:06.059 Carlos Razo: Both the boss.

102 00:13:07.170 00:13:09.380 Carlos Razo: I was working for the Pmo.

103 00:13:09.570 00:13:17.210 Carlos Razo: And there are. There are many project managers in that project management office.

104 00:13:19.670 00:13:34.230 Carlos Razo: Each Pm was a segment for some area. I was in the in the it’s innovation area.

105 00:13:34.720 00:13:38.500 Carlos Razo: I was working with new Projects board the bus there

106 00:13:39.420 00:13:45.169 Carlos Razo: doesn’t like the Pmo. He doesn’t want.

107 00:13:45.400 00:13:53.629 Carlos Razo: They break my 9 years, and I was the 3rd or 4th project manager assigned it to that project.

108 00:13:53.630 00:13:54.040 Amber Lin: Hmm.

109 00:13:54.040 00:14:01.620 Carlos Razo: Because she he fired all the the the previous managers.

110 00:14:02.700 00:14:12.930 Carlos Razo: So so the the director tell me, before I was hired

111 00:14:13.060 00:14:18.419 Carlos Razo: the the issue. He tell me that he wasn’t

112 00:14:19.370 00:14:25.459 Carlos Razo: feel comfortable with with the project managers. So it was a difficult task.

113 00:14:25.830 00:14:29.259 Carlos Razo: So I take take the risk, and I work with him.

114 00:14:31.270 00:14:36.630 Carlos Razo: The the previous project managers stay in the break

115 00:14:36.900 00:14:43.939 Carlos Razo: 2 months, or 4 or 3 months I stay with him for a year.

116 00:14:44.160 00:14:47.010 Carlos Razo: It was the property manager who

117 00:14:47.230 00:14:49.660 Carlos Razo: who most time is spent with the project.

118 00:14:50.130 00:14:50.800 Amber Lin: Wow!

119 00:14:50.800 00:15:04.040 Carlos Razo: But but it’s a difficult situation it’s a a very tension form of working. And

120 00:15:04.790 00:15:14.890 Carlos Razo: finally I was change it to another project, and another project manager was assigned to that project. I think he read me

121 00:15:15.130 00:15:20.790 Carlos Razo: like all the other pre managers, less than 6 or 5. I don’t know.

122 00:15:23.160 00:15:30.750 Amber Lin: where he would rate you and the other project managers as less than 6. But I thought he really liked you, and he let you stay for a year.

123 00:15:31.640 00:15:36.459 Carlos Razo: Yeah, yeah, over the year he tried to

124 00:15:37.590 00:15:40.669 Carlos Razo: put me out of the project and

125 00:15:41.290 00:15:44.860 Carlos Razo: talk with the project management office

126 00:15:45.100 00:15:49.579 Carlos Razo: for a change, or or for looking for someone else.

127 00:15:50.440 00:15:56.929 Carlos Razo: But but with my work they they he don’t have any.

128 00:15:58.170 00:16:04.329 Carlos Razo: A strong argument, for for I will be changing for the project.

129 00:16:04.530 00:16:05.530 Amber Lin: Hmm.

130 00:16:06.580 00:16:13.929 Carlos Razo: So until some many projects I was working for was ended.

131 00:16:14.030 00:16:18.220 Carlos Razo: So that’s the way he said.

132 00:16:18.480 00:16:20.469 Carlos Razo: He need me anymore.

133 00:16:21.832 00:16:26.669 Amber Lin: I see. Okay, so would he. Do you think he still rates you a 6.

134 00:16:28.500 00:16:29.000 Carlos Razo: Yes.

135 00:16:29.000 00:16:33.960 Amber Lin: I think the other Pm’s probably gets a lower rating because they only lasted 2 to 3 months.

136 00:16:34.970 00:16:42.019 Carlos Razo: Yes, see? Yes, I think he really may be fine.

137 00:16:43.240 00:16:45.373 Carlos Razo: It’s a very difficult person.

138 00:16:45.800 00:16:46.510 Amber Lin: Okay.

139 00:16:46.510 00:16:48.950 Carlos Razo: It’s. It’s complicated.

140 00:16:49.510 00:16:58.709 Amber Lin: Okay, okay, that’s I mean that happens. And I mean, that’s why you went to work for the other company which rated you at 9, which means it’s just a better fit for you.

141 00:16:58.980 00:16:59.760 Carlos Razo: Jeez.

142 00:17:01.020 00:17:02.990 Amber Lin: What about the boss before that.

143 00:17:07.659 00:17:12.359 Carlos Razo: Before that I was in.

144 00:17:16.669 00:17:25.629 Carlos Razo: That’s a a complicated situation. I was hired for

145 00:17:26.599 00:17:29.479 Carlos Razo: create a new product management office.

146 00:17:30.863 00:17:40.950 Carlos Razo: That’s Power Street was a company, or or it’s a company who work with an app for and

147 00:17:44.760 00:17:50.519 Carlos Razo: for for the small groceries or or small.

148 00:17:51.360 00:17:58.790 Carlos Razo: Yeah, it’s a small groceries in Mexico who ask the the probators

149 00:17:59.220 00:18:06.800 Carlos Razo: something and send some people to big the.

150 00:18:08.310 00:18:15.709 Carlos Razo: They take the the things he wanted, and we, the the company, sent.

151 00:18:17.300 00:18:20.730 Carlos Razo: send the the product to the grocery store.

152 00:18:21.195 00:18:21.660 Amber Lin: Okay.

153 00:18:22.340 00:18:23.510 Carlos Razo: And

154 00:18:24.120 00:18:36.909 Carlos Razo: they have many project managers, but they don’t have a project management office. So they want to implement the project management office, and I was hired for that.

155 00:18:37.180 00:18:37.840 Amber Lin: Okay.

156 00:18:39.140 00:18:45.540 Carlos Razo: But it was at the end of the year. In the last months, November, December.

157 00:18:45.670 00:18:46.320 Amber Lin: Hmm.

158 00:18:46.320 00:18:50.789 Carlos Razo: And I start working with the project managers.

159 00:18:51.180 00:18:56.929 Carlos Razo: I only work there for for November and December, because the.

160 00:18:58.310 00:19:08.170 Carlos Razo: The the owner of the enterprise or the company have so many work and and.

161 00:19:09.010 00:19:11.409 Carlos Razo: Don’t have the money for for payment, so.

162 00:19:11.410 00:19:12.599 Amber Lin: Oh, I see!

163 00:19:12.600 00:19:14.349 Carlos Razo: Close the project or so.

164 00:19:14.700 00:19:15.420 Amber Lin: Oh!

165 00:19:15.420 00:19:20.399 Carlos Razo: The project, management, project, management, office and.

166 00:19:20.400 00:19:21.150 Amber Lin: Wow!

167 00:19:21.150 00:19:25.750 Carlos Razo: The project, and I can continue with the the project.

168 00:19:25.750 00:19:39.130 Amber Lin: I see, I see that’s unfortunate. Would you say that with the with the time that you’re working with him, how would he rate you cause he didn’t fire. If he didn’t fire you, he just didn’t have the money. How would he rate you.

169 00:19:40.390 00:19:46.010 Carlos Razo: And maybe it’s not time enough for Rainy. But.

170 00:19:46.010 00:19:46.430 Amber Lin: Hmm.

171 00:19:46.430 00:19:51.140 Carlos Razo: In that time. I I think I’m 8.

172 00:19:51.530 00:19:53.360 Amber Lin: Okay, that’s really awesome.

173 00:19:54.870 00:19:55.570 Carlos Razo: Yes.

174 00:19:55.760 00:20:12.139 Amber Lin: Yeah, okay, thank you for telling me all of this information. I think I have a really good profile to show to my supervisor of what? What you have done and accomplished. Do you have any questions you would like to ask me.

175 00:20:14.130 00:20:24.639 Carlos Razo: I maybe about the teams or about the way they they work. How it will be.

176 00:20:25.200 00:20:43.129 Amber Lin: Yeah. So we are a fully remote team. So our people are all across the world. I’m in the Us. I think the most of the company’s clients are in the Us. And then we have a few people working in the Us. We have someone.

177 00:20:43.130 00:20:57.889 Amber Lin: We have a few working in the Philippines, and then someone in Europe. So Spain and Malta. And then we have someone I think, in before in Argentina. So we really work from everywhere, and

178 00:20:58.190 00:21:15.650 Amber Lin: we don’t have a set 9 to 5 any. You need to be there. So as long as you attend the required meetings and deliver work on time. We don’t have a requirement on where you work, and when you work.

179 00:21:15.810 00:21:20.759 Amber Lin: and in terms of ways of working, we are a

180 00:21:20.970 00:21:33.060 Amber Lin: consulting company. So we have a lot of different projects for different clients. And we don’t have a product that’s uniform. So each project is going to be different. And each team is about

181 00:21:33.550 00:21:50.200 Amber Lin: 2 to 4 people including including the man and plus the project manager, and so depending on the size of the team, each team might work differently, and it’s up to the project manager to decide how your team works.

182 00:21:50.310 00:21:52.220 Amber Lin: I hope that answers your question.

183 00:21:52.420 00:21:59.839 Carlos Razo: Yeah, sure. That’s that’s okay. Thank you. That that’s the only question I had.

184 00:21:59.840 00:22:00.760 Amber Lin: Oh, okay.

185 00:22:01.410 00:22:22.079 Amber Lin: sounds good. Yeah. So I will for the next steps. I’m going to present this to my boss, and then, depending on what they say. I think Rico will get back to you on the next steps, and if you have any questions in the meantime feel free to email, me, you have my email from this link.

186 00:22:22.520 00:22:24.159 Carlos Razo: Okay, sure. Thank you. Amber.

187 00:22:24.350 00:22:26.080 Amber Lin: Yeah, thank you so much, Carlos.

188 00:22:26.230 00:22:28.089 Amber Lin: It’s great and pleasure talking to you.

189 00:22:28.460 00:22:29.860 Carlos Razo: I hope to see you soon.

190 00:22:30.110 00:22:31.760 Amber Lin: Yep, bye.

191 00:22:31.760 00:22:32.460 Carlos Razo: Right.