Pros
*Free Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner (Although rumored that Breakfast & Dinner will be cut again). *Many talented bright young motivated individuals who are great to network with and know especially in Tokyo. // Nice New Office. *Mid Career positions are in a completely different category and from what I have heard are treated much better and appropriately. *Senior management is okay and they mean well but they don't manage the typical situations and tasks which are run by slow and useless mid level managers or "leaders".
Cons
<My Experience is as a BU New Grad : Current 3rd Year Worker) Career Related: *No career opportunities or growth opportunities for Japanese and ESPECIALLY for foreigners if you enter the company as new grads. (DON'T DO IT). *If you are a foreign person and speak Japanese they will almost 100% place you under a domestic manager with extremely limited language abilities and limited knowledge of overseas talent to test them (you are an experiment). *If you are a foreign person who doesn't speak Japanese you will be put in a position with limited growth opportunities and utilized for menial tasks (no promotion opportunities). *If you are a Japanese national and fortunate enough to be in Tokyo (most are sent to branch offices for the initial 2-3 years) and may have job opportunities after 4-5 years of working for below average pay and incredibly high amounts of uncompensated overtime work. Compensation: *The company is EXTREMELY cheap. Drinking parties, events etc are ALL paid for out of your own pocket yet often times mandatory. Business trips and other things are eventually reimbursed to you by the company but sometimes may cost up to 1-200,000yen up front with reimbursement following typically 2 months later. (Prepared to be completely broke ALWAYS while working here unless you are independently wealthy). *The salary is barely livable and while they state that you receive a bonus you do not actually receive your first full bonus (regular bonus) until being in the company for nearly 2 years if you enter as a new grad without a masters. *The evaluation system is terrible and all promotions and pay are based on time in the company not talent or work accomplished (typical Japanese personnel system). *New grads work the hardest and do the majority of work. Those in mid management positions are typically completely incompetent and only have been promoted because they did not quit or change jobs. Most talented people leave within 2-3 years. Foreign talent often within 1 year. *OLD SYSTEMS and DU teams complain as they are completely underutilized and their time is wasted. The pay is just TERRIBLE especially for people with hard skills like engineers as the evaluation system doesn't allow people to be appropriately rewarded. Work Life: *There is no additional overtime pay. *Be prepared to be either given extremely high volumes of work and have no life. Or be completely UNDER utilized and given nothing to do because you are too efficient and the managers are insecure and unable to manage you. *It's very political and constantly a battle because between new grads and superiors since often times you are more qualified / quicker / and bilingual in comparison to your superiors but can never be promoted above them.
