Rakuten

Big MNC stability.

Decent salary and perks.

Japanese culture expects you to work like a humanoid robot.

From requirement gathering to story creation to R&D and actual development to testing to DevOps and infra setup to UAT and go-live, you are the sole owner, product manager, and engineer of their products.

No team structure, no help. If you're stuck, you're on your own.

Managers are jacks of all trades and masters of none (let alone tech).

They treat you like schoolchildren with strict timing and timesheet culture, and expect you to attend weekly all-hands, or else an email gets triggered to HR. IDK how to react to that. #lmao

If your job is to be a puppet of the people sitting at HQ, don't call this "the biggest DC outside Japan."

Be rest assured, you're not building any development center; rather, it's a backdoor office.