I’m relatively new to the IT/tech industry so I’m not so sure what’s considered normal in the industry. I recently got into an IT company in Tokyo and the company makes me and the other employees undergo interviews before we get assigned to any projects. So if I don’t pass the interviews, I don’t get assigned to any projects. Even for in-house projects, we still have to go through interviews with the guys in charge of the project. If we’re not currently assigned to any projects, they make us do a fake 社内開発 and tell us to consider it as training. I’m wondering if this is the standard procedure for jobs in Japan or IT jobs in general.
Additional rant: they’ve only been giving me projects that are like an hour and a half away from my place and every time I tell them that I do not want to join the interview for those projects, I get scolded and they tell me that my project conditions are too high and that I should be lucky and grateful that they’re even finding me projects /案件 opportunities considering that foreigners aren’t allowed to join most of the time.
TL;DR: I already got hired by the company, but the company only gives me projects/jobs if I pass more interviews. Wondering if this is standard procedure for IT jobs.
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I am not in IT, but generally speaking, If your company is a consulting agency, then it makes sense to do interviews with the customers before working on their projects.
It can happen, but on every project? Even in house project?! Sounds like a bit hardcore…
I’m in a small company in Sendai and I had like 5 interviews in 10 years of work… It definitely depends on what your company exactly does and your role in it but… I suppose some companies work with that system.
In any case, here is one more reason for me to not want to go live in Tokyo :p
If its for customer projects yes its common for consulting projects, but not always.