No Technical Career Path for Engineers
No Technical Career Path for Engineers
The office was great, but this is irrelevant due to COVID.
People are nice.
The CEO is a businessman, not an engineer. Most managers are not ex-engineers. This, along with the Japanese top-down business style, means that engineers are often unheard or misunderstood.
This is also true for the technology they produce. Decisions are business-oriented rather than technically innovative. The top-down instructions are about "get this done quickly" rather than excellence or quality in the technology.
Teams are spread thin on many projects rather than being owners of a small system. After working at other tech companies, it feels very wrong and backward.
Get more technical understanding.
Make small, focused teams who own products with roadmaps, vision, and SLOs/SLAs/SLIs. Protect these teams from irrelevant requests and build new teams/services for new responsibilities.
Encourage and nurture innovation. Enable and coach the engineers to manage themselves and their work better in order to deliver the goals of the products.
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TokyoMarch 1, 2017The interview was conducted face-to-face in their head office. Three interviewers participated, and one of them was in charge of the interview. The interview was conducted in English. When you were describing the details of a project you had complete
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