Rakuten

Good exposure to large-scale services used by millions of users in Japan. This is a very valuable experience for junior engineers, who can grow a lot here.

Compared with traditional Japanese companies, it is friendly to foreigners.

Excellent location and beautiful views of the Japanese headquarters office.

• Slow promotion and low salary. In particular, Japanese managers often give lower evaluations than foreign managers in performance reviews, and give lower evaluations to young employees.

• Gender bias. Compared with men, women are more likely to be asked to perform "non-promotional tasks" or "supportive tasks," such as organizing online social events, arranging meetings, and taking notes.

• Too many meetings. Even for non-manager-level engineers, meeting time may account for more than 50% of the total working time. This makes work very inefficient.

• It claims to be a global company, but many meetings and documents are in Japanese. The company has many resources for employees to learn English, but there are few resources for foreigners to learn Japanese.

• The CEO asks people to return to the office during COVID, ignoring the fact that the office reports positive cases every few days.

• Due to large investment in the mobile business, even though other businesses made more profits during the COVID period, the company is losing money (you can check the financial report) and our bonuses have decreased.

If you want to reduce the turnover rate, try to think about how to make your employees happy. Listen to the real voice of employees. All the questions asked in the Q&A section in Asakai are filtered by HR and are meaningless. I have never seen anyone put forward an opposite opinion to the CEO.

WFH is not the cause of people's mental problems. Long hours of work, endless work, and unachievable deadlines are the reasons. Pushing RTO will only increase the pressure on your employees to worry about being infected by the coronavirus. And if you don't cover any loss from your employees who get infected, why should they risk their health for you?