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The working culture is the thing I hate the most about Japan. I've read the history. I'm interested in the culture. I've spent time learning the language. I con
by jzelinskie 11y ago
The working culture is the thing I hate the most about Japan. I've read the history. I'm interested in the culture. I've spent time learning the language. I consume lots of Japanese media. I've visited for a short time. However, I just don't think I could ever make the dive into living in Japan unless I was working remotely for an American company (and getting paid like an American) and somehow still maintained a visa to be in Japan.
- TulliusCicero 11y agoSame, although I'm keeping open the possibility of an internal transfer within my current company. I figure a Japanese office of an American multinational won't be as bad, right? Right??
- nandemo 11y agoIt depends on the company. Some "foreign" companies closely follow the structure and culture of their HQ (Goldman Sachs, Google). Some are essentially Japanese companies that happen to be owned by a foreign entity and share their brand (e.g. Yahoo Japan years ago -- now Yahoo isn't even the major shareholder). Some are in between (e.g. IBM Japan). Also, nowadays salaries at foreign companies tend to be more in line with the market. I've been living in Japan for a decade and I've always wanted to work for a foreign company. But I never managed to get an offer from Google, Amazon, etc. One year ago I interviewed for a senior developer position at a certain American company, went thru 4 rounds and finally got an offer... of around 60k USD.
- threeseed 11y agoWorking in IT in Japan is a bit of a joke in general. It is about 2-4x LESS than what you would get pretty much anywhere else in the world. They have long overtimes and in many places quite a conservative attitude toward decision making i.e. not fun. And the startup culture is really poor.