Pros: Less opportunity, still use old tech stack.

Cons: Global environment, free lunch and dinner.

Pros: In Japan Free breakfast, lunch, and dinner served in the Tokyo office; lunch in branch offices. Not as overtime-happy as other Japanese companies. Easy to relocate or change positions. Social status with a business card, only in Japan. Japanese insurance laws, e.g., up to 1 year paid leave for childbirth regardless of gender. Extremely high job security. You can only be fired if you do something really, really bad, like steal millions of dollars from the company or murder somebody.

Cons: Archaic corporate culture. Legal minimum vacation days, no sick days. Zero engineering career development: go managerial or go nowhere. Strict corporate ladder that values time served far more than individual capabilities. Salary so low prospective hires actually think you're joking when you tell them. Very weak hiring process: some of the most incompetent engineers I have ever seen in my life. Absurdly strict working times feels like elementary school. Worth as a person and employee determined entirely by arbitrary set of core values written by the CEO 20 years ago. Extremely cult-like culture worshipping CEO. Extremely high turnover rate (for foreigners only).

Pros: This used to be such a great company to work at, with interesting projects in development and IT managers who are helpful and supportive. I still really like my job here, though not as much as I used to before the downturn. Retail has become a difficult sector in general, but online is the only place to be in retail. So, if this company can succeed with their goals, it might really take off and become huge.

Cons: The company was bought by a Japanese conglomerate. Most all perks have disappeared, and everyone is now working at long, open tables, which is totally distracting. The pressure is on to do more with less. I'm not too sure if the new remote control management from Japan is capable of measuring up to the task they've been assigned. They want to grow our company into the equivalent of Amazon, which, while a nice goal, is going to be harder than hard. We'll see what happens.