US-born software dev / entrepreneur in Japan. https://nitter.cf/t.co/RzFdR4oudJ In Tokyo? Hit me up ☕ 😁
Tokyo, Japan
Joined February 2014
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🇯🇵 Moving to Japan & starting a business
💰 The long road from $0 to $80k a month
🤝 Learning to sell as a developer
🚀 Playbook to grow a job board in 2022
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For anyone with TS/JS + Rust experience:
Seems like a great opportunity in Japan ⤵︎
It appears that I’m hiring. DM me if you want to work together.
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For decades, everyone dunked on Japan for "missing" software.
"They're too obsessed with hardware..."
"They rely too much on System Integrators..."
mfw everyone in SF is either pivoting to hardware or hiring SIers (*they call 'em FDEs).
I'm not saying bad companies don't do these things.
I'm saying they provide no signal. You shouldn't NOT apply for a job because of them.
And to find actual "black companies" you need to look a lot deeper.
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3. Late example work hours in job descriptions, e.g "10:00 am to 7:00 pm"
Doesn't mean everyone works until 7. It means "you'll work 8 hours + 1-hour lunch"
So if you start at 10 (late), you end at 7.
That's what it's meant to communicate, not "they think 7pm is early" or w/e
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2. "Minashi zangyo" (built-in overtime)
At least in tech, nearly every company here has this. Bad companies have it. Good companies have it.
It doesn't mean you'll be doing overtime.
Plenty of companies with little-to-no overtime still have minashi zangyo.
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Japan job-related things foreigners think are red flags 🚩but aren't:
1. Saturday and Sunday listed under "holidays"
Means nothing, just how employers write JDs. Holdover from when Japan had 6-day weeks (rare now)
A template. Doesn't mean they're "proud" of giving weekends off
Underrated AI use case:
Maintain a personal browser extension.
And just... change websites whenever you feel like it.
Takes no time at all. AI updates the extension, which auto-refreshes
E.g I added an Old/New Toggle to my Reddit and a "Resolve all" button to my Github.
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Source:
[1] levels.fyi/offer/4e2bc0ed-13…
[2] levels.fyi/offer/aed2e675-89…
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I've met a few Bloomberg engineers in my Tokyo travels.
Thought "Oh the news website, that's cool I guess!"
Meanwhile they pay more than Google and Indeed apparently 😂
(h/t Levels⋅FYI)
Link to the job:
jobs.ashbyhq.com/Sierra/8f9d…
Btw I have no connection to this company. Just found this job on their ATS.
That said, @SierraPlatform I'd love to share your jobs on Japan Dev
So DM me if you're interested -- I think my users would love your company 💙
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Software Engineer, Agent @SierraPlatform
¥22 - 47M a year + equity 😗
People say the Tokyo market is bad, but I'm seeing more ¥40M+ data points than ever before...
![Material_Ship1344's comment on "[Hiring] Sierra offering up to ¥47M - "Software Engineer, Agent" in...](https://pbs.twimg.com/card_img/2120444944267481088/L6JW1Yuf?format=jpg&name=800x419)
OpenAI comp package in Tokyo:
¥18M + $600K USD PPU over 4 years (~¥42M TC)
(via *unverified* report on /r/JapanDev)
Freaking out about Japan's new N2 visa requirement?
It's not as bad as you might think.
via /r/JapanDev:
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Direct link to the thread is here
btw I'm sharing jobs, meetups + doing discussion threads like this weekly.
And I'm monitoring everything personally, so throw us a subscribe if you want a place to talk tech careers in Japan:
reddit.com/r/JapanDev/commen…
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Some good discussion in this week's /r/JapanDev General Chat thread.
- AI code % @ Japanese tech companies
- Current tech hiring market in Japan
- Working outside Tokyo / full-remote jobs
We're getting into it! Leave a comment if you've got one – I'll respond personally
