Hello all, I hope all are doing well and good.
I am new graduate from India completed my bachelor’s and recently got a job at Rakuten Mobile as a software engineer.
I just want to know little bit about company and about its working culture. As a fresh graduate I really want to have a good start of my career.
I still have time before moving to Tokyo, Japan and I hope this whole pandemic things sorts out till then🤞. I know tokyo is and expensive city to live atleast that’s what I have heard till now, but I think the company covers me well and even after what I spend I can save up a lot, let me know what are your thoughts on this.
I just want to know how does it fills to work there, want to know things about overwork, how strict is the office and the things which I should know.
Any help is appreciated.
Thank You.
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i don’t wanna be rude, but im a new grad currently working as a software engg in my country and just cleared n5 so that’s kind of my future target so I just wanted to ask how much is the annual pay?
I’m so sorry you have to work at Rakuten. My advice is to learn as much as you can in your first year, then immediately apply to other companies. If you care about your career at all, do not stay there long term. I have many friends who went the Rakuten route and they all hated it. Rakuten was only good for getting them visas into the country.
I don’t have friend working at Rakuten, but I work on sister company which my parent company based on Shinjuku, also one of my colleagues offered to work there so here’s my friend story.
1. Seniority is still a norm there, you should have a high respect for your senior and this is why overwork become normal. People usually not going home before their senior check out
2. The rent is high, even for small studio. My friend which aware of this situation usually walk or commute.
3. Fresh Graduate is often looked lazy. I think this is why sometimes upper management, and senior sometimes give an impossible task, to push the boundary of fresh graduate skills and working mindset.
4. Micromanaging, I don’t know in rakuten, but most of software company in Japan (or software house) that I know, didn’t adopt modern software engineering practice like in the west (like agile, scrum, etc). They tend to work by themselves using waterfall or old tools like excel, etc. This makes you should micromanaging stuff outside of the technical stuff as software developer, and I think its normal, since you will be seen as salary man (which usually doesn’t work on specific knowledge task such as front end , backend, or something) you will be needed to learn outside of your comfort zone
in conclusion, its great for a fresh graduate
you will try hard, but you will get a vast amount of experiences
Good Luck
Best of luck bhai!
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