I appreciate your honest opinion (in English only). (Shhh... it's a secret.) All joking aside, thank you. I think it's completely fine and good to speak the truth, and you're being more than polite about it.
So one thing I had heard about traditional japanese companies is that after the first couple of years, they start giving the employees massive increases in pay, and every year they increase it. How true is that?
Increasing after the first couple of years is true. But final salary is not that high as the US tech companies. Up to 10 million yen for annual salary.
I am working as an IT engineer here in Japan. I think there is one more reason why the IT is bad. It's the management style. The old-style management system treats IT engineers like contract workers: they should do as they're told, and they couldn't and shouldn't reject any request. Adding new features every month and no one maintains the previous ones. Sometimes, even the startup companies' upper managements have this style.
I worked in Japanese IT back in the late 2000s. Always had a bit of a laugh how some Japanese companies would rely on "soon-to-be-unsupported" versions of software because of the belief of their stability or speed on faster hardware - and completely ignore possible software vulnerabilities and future support issues. I think Windows XP had way too long a life in Japan. Actually so did fax machines. Also the religious devotion to Ruby - because it was designed by a Japanese - prevented exploration of other languages and frameworks. Although I always admired how Japanese people would support their own "Made in Japan" products.
“Old technology is asshole” 🤣 I love it, it described it perfectly.
Great work Kei! Keep up the good work! ✨
I appreciate your honest opinion (in English only). (Shhh... it's a secret.) All joking aside, thank you. I think it's completely fine and good to speak the truth, and you're being more than polite about it.
Thanks man👍
So one thing I had heard about traditional japanese companies is that after the first couple of years, they start giving the employees massive increases in pay, and every year they increase it.
How true is that?
Increasing after the first couple of years is true. But final salary is not that high as the US tech companies. Up to 10 million yen for annual salary.
I am working as an IT engineer here in Japan.
I think there is one more reason why the IT is bad. It's the management style.
The old-style management system treats IT engineers like contract workers: they should do as they're told, and they couldn't and shouldn't reject any request. Adding new features every month and no one maintains the previous ones.
Sometimes, even the startup companies' upper managements have this style.
How about Chinese IT industry compared to Japanese?
I worked in Japanese IT back in the late 2000s. Always had a bit of a laugh how some Japanese companies would rely on "soon-to-be-unsupported" versions of software because of the belief of their stability or speed on faster hardware - and completely ignore possible software vulnerabilities and future support issues. I think Windows XP had way too long a life in Japan. Actually so did fax machines.
Also the religious devotion to Ruby - because it was designed by a Japanese - prevented exploration of other languages and frameworks. Although I always admired how Japanese people would support their own "Made in Japan" products.
they still using fax machinse BTW
What's wrong with Ruby?