It has nothing to do with educational background or career.Grow up correctly.#NTERVIEW #2 - ENSOKU!

Hello! This is Akita from HR.

This is the 2nd installment of "Engineer employee interview". This is an interview article with Yuto Kawamura, who joined the company mid-career as an engineer in 2021.

We asked Mr. Kawamura, who has a unique background, about his past and future plans!

He also told me about the fields he's been interested in recently and how he usually studies! Please take a look to the end.

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First of all, please tell us about your background.

After graduating from high school, I worked as a waitress at a long-established inn in Nagano Prefecture, and then moved to Tokyo to become an idol.

While using various web services and applications, I became interested in programming, started studying, and jumped into the IT industry with no experience. After gaining experience in back-end and front-end at a venture company for about three years, I joined en-japan in May of this year.

Mr. Nakai, I'm curious about how you became an idol!

When I was thinking about my career after graduating from high school, I decided that I would do what I wanted to do one by one, no matter what anyone said.

At the time, Nakai-san was one of the things I wanted to do. Among the hospitality industry, I thought that hospitality at a ryokan would be a clear line, and I wanted to experience what I consider to be the pinnacle of the hospitality industry, so I became a waitress.

Also, since I was little, I somehow thought that "entertainment activities are good". Looking back on it now, I regretted that I had no core at all, but I went to an acting training school to study, went to acquaintances' live performances and played the piano, appeared in events and walked the runway...

And I did a lot of auditions and contests. During that time, a friend I met invited me to join them, and I started working as an idol.

This is a stage photo when I was an idol! I was working hard every day.

What made you want to become an engineer from being an idol?

I used various web services and apps for smartphones, and I thought it would be nice to be able to create them, which is what started my goal.

Various reasons such as ``I had someone working as an engineer close to me'', ``I always liked working with computers'', and ``I didn't seem to care so much about my educational background as long as I had the skills''. There was, but the decisive factor was that I felt that engineers were somehow cool.

I liked idols and often went to Yokoari and Joho. Seat luck is not so good...

Going back a bit, what were you doing when you were a student?

I started playing basketball and piano in kindergarten all the way through high school.

When I was in high school, I was in the position of "manager and manager" in the basketball club, so I thought about the daily practice menu and continued to worry about the team, such as what kind of tactics would be good, and every day was very fulfilling. was.

However, I don't have anything particularly noticeable in "academic ability, sports, art", and I don't particularly want to do it. In addition, because I was easily bored, I remember having a hard time because I didn't know what I wanted to do in the future.

One of my school days. I enjoyed my time with my classmates and club activities, and every day was fulfilling.

What kind of career change did you do? Why did you decide to join en?

To be honest, I didn't have any desire to change jobs before joining en-japan.

A scout from en Japan arrived around December of last year through "AMBI", which I had been using for several years because I thought the UI and service itself was wonderful. It all started when I thought, ``I've heard about this company, so I'll give it a try, even just for an interview.''

At the time, I didn't even know that "AMBI" was an en-japan product. However, as I proceeded with the interviews, en-japan thoroughly implemented the idea of ​​"putting the customer first", which I had cherished since I worked at the inn, throughout the company as a "user first principle". I decided to join the company because I was attracted to it.

Click to go to the AMBI site!

"HR OnBoard" is a tool that visualizes the signs that employees who have been with the company for less than a year will leave the company. Employees respond to three questions each month by tapping stamps, and based on the answers, the company can grasp the situation with "sunny, cloudy, rain" for the risk of leaving the job.

While I am involved in development, I am also a first-year employee at en-Japan, so I am also using it as a user.

Click to jump to the HR OnBoard site!

What kind of technology do you use in the PJT and what are you doing?

The front end is Nuxt.js and the back end is Laravel.

Since we are using scrum development, we are pushing forward with development in one sprint every two weeks. I am a front-end engineer, but sometimes I am also in charge of back-end improvements. Currently, we are doing responsive correspondence so that it can be viewed on mobile.

Tell us about the challenges and challenges!

I think the point is that if you can make the effort correctly, it will be easier for you to realize that you are growing. When I can do something that I couldn't do before, and when I can teach it to others, I feel that I have grown. Motivation rises even more when you feel growth in a random moment like this.

Technology and devices change very rapidly, and I feel that it is difficult to deal with them. In terms of the front end, the mainstream devices are changing rapidly, and the description method used a few years ago is pointed out as "old" before you know it. If I didn't enjoy the situation of having to keep studying all the time, I think I would have quit.

A photo from the office. Everyone is kind and funny, and I enjoy working every day!

Tell us about your current interests.

Currently, we are looking for a QA engineer, and I am in charge of recruitment work in parallel with development. The more I research about QA engineers and quality control, the more I feel that they are essential knowledge for engineers.

I believe that testing and quality issues cannot be ignored in any system or service, so I am studying for a test engineer qualification called JSTQB.

How do you usually study?

Quickly read the official documentation, then get your hands on it and look it up if you get stuck. Repeat this all the time.

In my daily life, I'm actually trying to create something that makes me think "I wish there was a service like this..." or "This might be interesting!", using the technology I'm studying. I tried various study methods, but in the end, I found that working with my hands was the best for me.

Recently, I made something like a point service that accumulates every time you do housework. "I want to create a service that allows me to enjoy everyday housework... I want to create a service with this kind of technical configuration from scratch," and it is already in operation. I do housework every day with the motivation of "I'll buy that when I've accumulated 10,000 points!"

On days off when the weather is nice, I cycle for about an hour. Autumn cycling is my favorite!

Finally, please tell us what you think about your future career!

Originally, when I first became a programmer, I was thinking of mastering one technology, but recently I feel that there is no way for me, who is poor in dexterity and gets bored. If anything, I would like to move in the direction of a generalist that can handle a wide variety of things.

Also, I always look for fun and excitement in my work, so I don't have a specific example, but I always think that it would be nice if I could challenge various things. .

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Thank you Kawamura-san!

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