Good night, I’m a residence in Japan now, so I think I can post this here now.
Sorry but I just wanna share my frustration and hopefully feel better after that.
I have 3 years of experience as a developer and a CS degree
Speak English and Spanish
I moved here but sadly I had to leave my Job as a software engineer in an UK company based in my country, it was a really good company and environment but I prioritized Japan.
It’s a little bit hard to always get messages like “we regret bla bla but at this time bla bla”
I never got so many rejections until I reached an IT role before.
Something I learned in a bad way is, even for Developers Roles you should have a N3 or minimum N4 ideally N2
Most of the companies reject me because that and others contact me but when I ask if English is ok? They say no, because the team only speak japanese etc.
Is really hard because I love work as a developer
I got experience with languages as JS Node C# RN native and learning Go and Java (doing projects)
So I thought I’ll be ok doing Job hunting here, anyway this is what I love to do so I started a japanese course and studying at home as well
So in the worst case scenario I’ll find a job in a restaurant or something like that (it was my job before become a developer )
But I hope someday I got the chance work as a developer in Japan or when I reach a good japanese level so I can apply to all that positions. mostly 90% on linkdln jobs say japanese is required.
So just wanted to share this experience and anyway I’ll just continue studying and doing my best.
Edit:
This is my portfolio
https://erudev.page/
If you have any advice is welcome and will appreciate it.
I’m working on some projects so it’s not totally updated