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Getting a job as an American here is easy. Just be proficient in the language and have solid skills in your field and it's not difficult to get a good programmi
by fiblye 9y ago
Getting a job as an American here is easy. Just be proficient in the language and have solid skills in your field and it's not difficult to get a good programming job that pays about $2000 a month with 25-40 hours of expected overtime.
And that's on the low side. The overtime, not the pay. I've seen job openings for ~$1600/month here and average expected overtime of 91 hours/month for one company. I've been contacted by companies offering similar.
And pay raises are pretty much based on age.
If that all sounds like an improvement over your status in America, it's easy to move over here. Pretty much all visas are approved. If that sounds bad, Japan is not a good place. For me, it was an improvement.
- aesclepius 9y agoWait, $2000/month with 25-40 guaranteed hours of overtime on the low end? That sounds absolutely terrible, or am I missing something?
- reustle 9y agoThat's the joke. Working conditions here (Japan) are generally terrible, and engineers (and pretty much everyone else) is sorely undervalued.
- forinti 9y agoDoes this generate any conflict at all, or do people just accept it?
- reustle 9y agoI don't have enough experience to speak on it (lived here over 1 year), but my foreign friends tend to try to stay out of JP companies, and smart japanese friends end up working (remotely or moving) w/ western tech companies.