Rakuten

Great office building. Free and nutritional meals. A lot of amenities in the office that really sweeten the stay. English-speaking Japanese company in Japan - a rarity.

Management is only interested in pleasing the bosses.

Bosses are only pleased in making the leaders happy.

Leaders only want to make money, no matter what.

This, in turn, creates a sick cycle of pushing pressure down to the "code monkeys," leaving them in a highly tense and unhappy environment.

With Japanese management, transitioning to agile methodologies is such a climb, and rarely can you even get through them.

They want results but are not willing to go through the process of carving out the best way to achieve that result.

They say they're open to new technologies and methodologies, but really, it's all just that they want to get their cash faster, but don't understand that the birth pains and struggles a team needs to get through to be lean and agile are not that easy.