Meet TurkishWINner: Özge Oktay

What do you do for a living? Tell us more about you.

I’m working as Spam agent program manager at Pinterest. I’m working closely with internal and external teams to optimize their operations. I have moved to the Bay Area 4 years ago. Prior I was a Team Lead at Accenture and before that I was a SAP consultant in Turkey.

What's the best piece advice you've received?

Don’t stress over the things you can’t control.

Dark chocolate or milk chocolate

Milk Chocolate

One think you wish you have known earlier in your career

Focus on your strengths not your weaknesses

If you could have any three people (dead or alive) over for dinner – who would they be?

Turkan Saylan, Zulfu Livaneli, Aziz Nesin

Name a book you read that positively shaped you.

The Last Lecture

You believe in the sisterhood at work because…

We should fight for each other not with each other.

If you had one superpower, what would it be?

Teleportation

What’s in your handbag right now?

Phone, wallet, book, keys, headphones.

Last book you read or are reading now

Better Than Before- Gretchen Rubin

If you have a time machine to which era do you want to travel in time? Which era? Past or future and why?

I would like to go between 1970s to 1980s to meet my grandparents.

If you weren’t in your industry – what would you be doing?

Something related to movies.

What’s on your iPod (or cell phone playlist) right now?

Selda Bagcan Remix

If your house was on fire, what two things would you run back in to get?

Passport/ID and photo albums

Any tattoos?

No

You have a trip from İstanbul to Bodrum by car. Choose a famous people whose sit near you and join your trip.

Gulse Birsel