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> The shift was made with the corporation’s shortfall in engineers in mind. Finding it difficult to secure enough Japanese, Money Forward decided to replace Jap
by htag 3y ago
> The shift was made with the corporation’s shortfall in engineers in mind. Finding it difficult to secure enough Japanese, Money Forward decided to replace Japanese with English to attract foreign personnel.
How many English speakers are they attracting? I would imagine national immigration policy is the primary limiting factor for how many English speaking software engineers a company could attract. There's plenty of qualified people in the North American and Europe that would be interested in working in Japan while speaking English.
- midoridensha 3y agoThe immigration policy for skilled professionals makes Japan probably the easiest country to immigrate to in the whole world. The problem with software engineering in Japan is that the salaries are much lower than in the US, though they're not too awful compared to Europe.
- vatican_banker 3y agoThese companies are, most likely, targeting talent from China, South Korea, or South East Asia. Top talent from, say, Vietnam already speaks good English and many would jump to the opportunity to work in Japan under these conditions.
- midoridensha 3y agoIt's true; I have many more coworkers from China (+SE Asia) than from America. There's tons of IT professionals from China living in Tokyo. I haven't met too many Vietnamese though, but I have met a couple. Japan also attracts a lot of Filipinos (though not so much in the IT sector, in my experience).
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- krageon 3y agoCan you give an indication of average salary?
- midoridensha 3y agoCan you give an indication of average salary in the US?
- iso1631 3y ago40k-4m depending on skills and company
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- htag 3y agoYou can look at salary ranges on levels.fyi to get some indication of what pay is in different companies and cities in the US. For top level companies you can be looking at starting salaries around $150k for Bay Area.
- midoridensha 3y agoI'm American; I know what salaries in the US are like. My point is there's no average salary; as the other person said, it can range between $40K and $4M.
- krageon 3y agoIf someone says something about the salaries explicitly they have numbers in mind and theories on how they should map. That's what I was after, and it's what I got. I think your stance that an average salary does not exist is nonsense, especially if you look at averages for seniority levels in relatively wealthy areas (which the entirety of Japan is).
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