So assuming I would be interested in gaining employment in Japan, which I actually am, working for a BFFM in Tokyo would be one of the better options to pursue? Any particular ones that you have heard to be nice places to work?
Re:What it's like to join a startup in Japan
by patio11 on Thursday April 21, 2011 @09:16AM
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From HN meetups, which is most of my exposure to the Tokyo tech grapevine, I have heard good things about a gigantic multinational advertising firm and an assortment of finance companies. Tokyo's a big place and every industry you've ever heard of, and most multinationals in those industries, has some presence there.
Re:What it's like to join a startup in Japan
by bluedanieru on Thursday April 21, 2011 @11:28AM
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How do I get into these HN meetups.
Re:What it's like to join a startup in Japan
by gwilkes on Thursday April 21, 2011 @12:01PM
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I went to my first one last month a week after the earthquake and saw it here on HN. You should definitely come out for the next one which will probably show up here:
It looks like the founders of MakeLeaps (po and jason_tko on HN) have been organizing them roughly every two months for about a year now. I was thinking of bugging them pretty soon to see when they were thinking of having the next meetup.
Concrete for techies, work at myGengo is very different than being a salaryman at a particular Japanese multinational I have intimate experience of. That multinational is different from Toyota. Toyota is very much not Sony. There's a raft of Big Freaking Foreign Megacorps in Tokyo and the experience of working for them is, I'm told, not salarymanesque and also different from their home offices.