Japanese firms enter recruiting fray to attract IT talent from India | The Asahi Shimbun: Breaking News, Japan News and Analysis

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1. The real reason is that Indian people are cheaper. I joined a well-known company as a software engineer last year and quit after a month once I realised that literally the entire team, in the Tokyo office, was Indian – which they’d done because they don’t want to pay the salaries that many Westerners with those skills expect. I don’t have a problem with working with people from other countries, but when the entire team is from one country and speak their own language to each other you just feel completely out of place. A European guy who joined right after I did did exactly the same thing – quit immediately.

2. If only they weren’t so stingy and idiotic with their whole visa sponsor nonsense, and their requirements. Entry job but demand native English and native Japanese level, along with a bucket list of skills and such

3. Not surprising given the salary Japanese companies expect to pay. Seems as though they think 5 to 9 million is the going rate. At today’s exchange rate that tops out at $67,000. If you can get hired by a major software house in the US, you can make double or triple that, or more. If you are a top tier developer from India, you’ll come the the US on an H1-B, and make less than the average citizen, but not that much less.

   However, if you are sitting in India, on outsourced wages, Japan might look like a pretty good deal.