Thanks for the questions. I learnt so much myself. About remote work, I know a western start ups that only allows 2 days a week remote. If I had a company I'm not sure how I'll manage it, ideally full remote anywhere within 4hrs time difference but yeah how would you manage your team?

@@devippo If I know I'm dealing with skilled devs who thrive when they are left alone and able to get into their flow state of work and creativity, I think I could do remote anywhere in the world and not even have daily meetings, just meetings with necessary people as needed and maybe a mandatory weekly group meeting that works for everyone's time zone. I feel this way because I'm in a remote mastermind group and half of us are in Asia and the other half in North America. For entry level devs I think remote isn't so good, that's coming from my experience of having my first developer job being fully remote with no option to go into the office because everyone is fully remote. And we are constantly hiring new people with no experience. When the lead dev is absent (which is rare) productivity is hit hard because the new people are just at home by themselves with no help.

Never say never. studying for N2 while not being in Japan is really hard. You will have to push yourself to keep up the daily study schedule. Nearly there man!

Oh thanks for the info! I will look into it. I'll probably buy something cheap out of Tokyo.

I have somewhat this impression, Japan is becoming more popular for the zoomer & late millennial generation. Which means Ferrari devs will be the first accepted.

I don't want to but I know some people who will go though it just to work fang.

From my experience a PM that doesn't speak Japanese will have to work at a foreign / English speaking company. Not impossible but not so many job openings. Most PM's I've worked with were Japanese and didn't speak English.

If you don't have a degree then I think it's 10 years experience. All the best man. Where there is a will there is a way.

It's not guaranteed employment as some might think.

Maybe it's best not to lie and just say how much you want. That's just me.

The companies that ask this typically ask for confirmation, such as payslips or the previous year's tax certificate.

@@tokyotechrecruiter hmm so they don't just believe what you say? that's interesting

@@rafae5902 Unless you do your own taxes, you will have to submit your tax statement from the previous year to your new employer so they can do your end of year tax adjustment. They will see your salary from the previous year on that document (源泉徴収票).

Don’t lie about your comp. They’ll check.