- You are working as a subsidiary of a Japanese corporate parent, so you don't really have a lot of control over most activities in the company.
- The Japanese parent is old-school Japanese - a lot of command and control, and behind the times (they are located in the mountains of Japan).
- A lot of your time will be spent dealing with politics and inquiries from the parent company.
- Most processes are highly manual and rely on tribal knowledge.
- IT systems are mostly good and improving - At least IT is listening, partnering and driving key projects for sales and marketing (we are a sales company!) under the new CIO who actually showed us an IT strategy and changed the culture vs. in the past. Great and smart team but they don't seem to have enough resources to address our needs in sales and marketing. This seems to be a point of frustration for all involved.
- A lot of change in the organization, but I do not see diversity in those being chosen to take on new leadership roles.
