This was amazing! So cool to have my question directly answered! At around 15 minutes you guys talked about the employees pushing a change for more remote work. I think that push will mostly have to come from foreigners or Japanese who have experience working abroad or in non-tadional Japanese style. The typical Japanese employee is not going to push back against anything. Just my observation.
@devippo2 ай бұрын
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?
@WebDevJapan2 ай бұрын
@@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.
@konkyolifeАй бұрын
Paul is a great guy, no nonsense advice from him always.
@21Kikoshi2 ай бұрын
I agree short pre interviews would be great. I wish more companies did this.
@KateikyoshiDX2 ай бұрын
Thanks for both parts. A lot of things were clarified/confirmed for me. I guess with my 2 years of backend and half-assed N3+ something listening-speaking-reading I may have a chance with a recruiter to get to japan from overseas. Slight, but existing chance.
@devippo2 ай бұрын
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!
@panwilku61462 ай бұрын
Very informative interview with many examples that might correspond with many people's situations. I wonder what if I'm here in Japan (I'm second year student here) at lets say tier 2 university, but my major is 国際日本, so nothing related with IT. I speak Japanese at N2 level, and by the time I graduate I should be able to be even more fluent. Im taking programming class at uni, but most of the time I learn on my own (python, js), I've got CS50 certificate and I'm planning to get some more like AWS cert etc. I started doing some leetcode easy/medium problems recently. I have no working experiance though, but I want to find an internship next year. What are the chances for being employed for someone with my background as new grad? I dont really feel like working in a typical Japanese company, I would like to have an international team.
@krisinfo7823Ай бұрын
Thank you for the amazing interview!! I'd like to know what are the probabilities for someone who already has PR and N3. I'm thinking to move back when I finished my dilloma in canada.
@hopelesssuprem18672 ай бұрын
thank you for a great content
@aboutrobots22 күн бұрын
Just commenting on "I can't get a mortgage". While you can't get a cheap mortgage from a major bank, you should be able to qualify for a FLAT35 based on your last 12 months salary. It's backed by the government with very flexible rules, although it's not the best rates (like last year FLAT35 would be 1.5% while banks offered as low as 0.5%)
@devippo20 күн бұрын
Oh thanks for the info! I will look into it. I'll probably buy something cheap out of Tokyo.
@21Kikoshi2 ай бұрын
My takeaways are unless you can speak Japanese, you have to be a Ferrari dev willing to take a Toyota pay or you need to get lucky, else tough luck
@devippo2 ай бұрын
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.
@rafae59022 ай бұрын
Some ppl just don't want to work in FANG type companies or don't want to submit to their stupid hiring process.
@devippo2 ай бұрын
I don't want to but I know some people who will go though it just to work fang.
@flatwhite76822 ай бұрын
Thank you a lot for the interview! Is it possible to ask some questions about an IT management and recruitment process for Project Managers in Japan. How difficult and "how far" is employment possible for the foreigner PM?
@devippo2 ай бұрын
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.
@michaelwatson90892 ай бұрын
I am just going to learn Japanese, go back to visit for 2 weeks next year to network to build connections, and try to get a work visa after I get 5 years of experience as a frontend developer. Might try to see if I can network with an engineer at the Yokosuka base I was stationed at. Me trying to go to Japan at my level right now, like the recruiter mentioned is a risk. Studying for the ITPEC and flying to Philippines to take the test would be a headache for me.
@devippo2 ай бұрын
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.
@scienceboy208142 ай бұрын
The "Bootcamp stories" are real. I know because I've known people that did it.
@devippo2 ай бұрын
It's not guaranteed employment as some might think.
@rafae59022 ай бұрын
What if you lie about your current/previous salary? Is there a way for them to discover you're lying?
@devippo2 ай бұрын
Maybe it's best not to lie and just say how much you want. That's just me.
@tokyotechrecruiter2 ай бұрын
The companies that ask this typically ask for confirmation, such as payslips or the previous year's tax certificate.
@rafae59022 ай бұрын
@@tokyotechrecruiter hmm so they don't just believe what you say? that's interesting
@WebDevJapan2 ай бұрын
@@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).