>Salaries and prestige are relatively low for developers in Japan Yeah, I was pretty surprised to hear that a Senior Engineering Manager at Rakuten, the "Japan

>Salaries and prestige are relatively low for developers in Japan Yeah, I was pretty surprised to hear that a Senior Engineering Manager at Rakuten, the "Japanese Amazon" and one of their top software companies, only has the TC of somewhere around $100k USD. And the position was in Tokyo, not exactly a cheap place. Many senior engineers at "top tier" domestic software companies get paid somewhere around $70-$90k, which is pathetic for even LCOL areas in the U.S.