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3.8

61% would recommend to a friend

(37 total reviews)

Masayuki Makino

77% approve of CEO

31% positive business outlook

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1.0
Jul 28, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

- Working with good engineers from some different countries - Quite high salary (only) for freshers

Cons

- Bad Evaluation System We are judged by our seniors with A, B, C, D, E. Somehow, anyone may get E with unclear reason. Even after we worked so hard, leaved the office until the last train, came to office on the weekend, we may still get E with no acceptable reason. Once you get E, you will be terminated even if it's your first E. If you get C or D, you may also have a chance to be terminated. - Random Termination Anyone can be terminated, no matter how good you are. Currently they need to reduce their expense by firing people. And to terminate people, they will give you E as an excuse. "You are fired because you get E". So they will brand you as a very bad engineer with unclear reason, and they will terminate you. - Poor Hiring Decision They started to do mass hiring since a couple years ago. Suddenly quantity become more important than quality. After this bad hiring decision, and the revenue is not increasing as expected, sadly they are blaming us (employees) for it. - No Raise, Even After a Promotion Currently get a promotion to higher class doesn't mean we will get raise. In the past, they still increase our salary with a small amount, but it's not worth the effort & time.

2.0
Jul 21, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

- good salary as a fresh grad - one free drink per day - easy to get your leave application approved - flexible working hour as long as working for 8 hours a day

Cons

- just think: overemphasis on thinking results in an environment with many incompetent and unprofessional leaders and engineers who can neither PRODUCE clean code nor DELIVER good products. The company prefers the obedient employees to the technically capable ones and elect the former to be leaders. - no scapegoating: the distribution of responsibility is deliberately blurred, such that those who are truly to be blamed for buggy code, wrong technical decisions and unstable architecture can hide themselves behind their scapegoats. - breakthrough: many of the breakthroughs just break through the obstacles made within the company, such as unsuitable technical choices and buggy implementations. Highly usable and widely accepted libraries, tools and frameworks are out there, yet the engineering team chose to build our own. - contingency plan: do we have a contingency plan in the midst of financial struggles? - human skills: the so-called leaders do not represent or fight for the welfare of his/her subordinates. Often they stand with their leaders and squeeze their subordinates together. - boss-driven over product-oriented: implementation, troubleshooting and decision-making are driven by bosses' demands, rather than being rooted in facts or product oriented. Development may change course anytime as long as some big bosses want it that way, despite the fact that it breaks development roadmap or apparently violates engineering practices. - process over engineering: overly complicated processes are made to restrict technical discussion and decisions and writing, submitting and releasing code, which is iconic Japanese Ho-Ren-So culture and greatly endorsed by higher managers. Managers block developers from submitting code, thinking it is able to stabilize the build and improve the quality of products. - firefighting over troubleshooting: too many engineers are mobilised for putting off sparks instead of solving the root problem. Too many temporary fixes have been made permanent. Firefighters are rewarded and admired as heroes while those who prevent the fire from the very beginning are often neglected.

5.0
Apr 26, 2017

We make you happier as a employer and value creator

Anonymous employee
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Pros

We have variety of employee that is very great to create services and ideas to make everyheart happier in Earth. Our AI product AI WORKS is very epochmaking.

Cons

Maybe some top-down approaches are many but your flexibility become better than entering. And a few employees from other firm to become officer are a little lazy.

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