They are also the holding company which owns Indeed.com
Yep. They are using Indeed talent and culture to help drive their expansion.
Recruit Is Japan’s Top Contender for Global Internet Domination
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#22The #1 largest market for GitHub is the US. The second largest group of users is from Japan. I'm surprised there aren't more startups from Japan. The people are tech savvy and the economic malaise exceeding 20 years should be pushing people towards entrepreneurship and risk taking.
From what I know, Japanese companies are pretty resistant to using new software technology. (Someone, please correct me if I'm wrong).
True, and finding good talent here which is good with new tech is also quite difficult.
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#23From what I know about the tech/talent there, it won't be happening any time soon
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#24In my view, recruit is a sales company. They have very strong sales team covering SMBs. That allowed them to build gurunavi (similar to Yelp), airregi (similar to square), and so on. Couple of years ago they started focus more on hiring top engineering talent and I think it is absolutely right move, but frankly I don't think they can compete grobally as tech company in near future.
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#25I still find it very difficult to trust Bloomberg after “The Big Hack” was widely refuted without a retraction. Now whenever I read a Bloomberg puff peice like this, I’m wondering who’s agenda they’re serving. Who’s got all the Recruit stock that wants to see it rise? How much of the article is twisted to paint this company in a positive light? They’re not a trustworthy publication anymore.
Hey, folks thought Echelon was a joke in the 90's until Snowden showed that Echelon is child's play. The Big Hack might be true or not, but it's not far fetched. There might be more at play here. Watch this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqQhWitJ1As&feature=youtu.be
Few are denying that the Chinese Government spys, vacuums up as much data as possible and generally should not be trusted.
But the specific allegations raised in the "The Big Hack" appear to be without basis.
In my mind it looks more like "Weapons of Mass Destruction" BS that once saturated the media.
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#26Considering they completely lack internationalization/localization (at least on signup, on Hot Pepper and their Recruit account management page), it doesn't give me the impression Recruit has the right mindset to compete on a global scale.
While this is just a medium hard problem to fix technically, it's the mindset of most employees that would have to change. Good i18n/l10n requires some consideration of development (it's easy to create untranslatable text, when the technical structure of strings can't reflect foreign grammar), marketing/sales (you need different approaches for different markets) and management (giving time to do i18n right).
Currently Recruit shows the typical island mentality. Their consideration ends at the borders of Japan. Not a good place to start for global domination.
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#27I live and run a startup out of Japan and given the engineering talent here or lack thereof, I can almost guarantee that you won’t see any Japanese tech startup going global anytime soon. If anything, they will copy another global innovative company and dominate the domestic market but with no real innovation (look no further than the very mediocre Rakuten).
Gone are the days where Sony, Nintendo and others had what it takes to craft a quality product that was compelling to global audiences.
Japan has lost its mojo and the sad thing is that the conservatives forces are so strong that this country won’t attract any talent needed to change the bad bad status quo for the foreseeable future.
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#28Considering they completely lack internationalization/localization (at least on signup, on Hot Pepper and their Recruit account management page), it doesn't give me the impression Recruit has the right mindset to compete on a global scale. While this is just a medium hard problem to fix technically, it's the mindset of most employees that would have to change. Good i18n/l10n requires some consideration of development…
Recruit owns Indeed and Glassdoor, which are doing pretty well beyond Japan.
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#29I live and run a startup out of Japan and given the engineering talent here or lack thereof, I can almost guarantee that you won’t see any Japanese tech startup going global anytime soon. If anything, they will copy another global innovative company and dominate the domestic market but with no real innovation (look no further than the very mediocre Rakuten). Gone are the days where Sony, Nintendo and others had what…
I moved to Japan to do research for my CS master thesis at one of the top5 universities. While I knew English is not spoken by most Japanese, I was honestly surprised that nearly all the CS students in my lab lack the English skill for daily conversations, let alone have a technical discussion.
Considering how international and English dominated CS is and only Japans best students get a place at this university, that is a very bad basis to create top software engineering talent.
Re: Recruit Is Japan’s Top Contender for Global Internet Domination
#30Considering they completely lack internationalization/localization (at least on signup, on Hot Pepper and their Recruit account management page), it doesn't give me the impression Recruit has the right mindset to compete on a global scale. While this is just a medium hard problem to fix technically, it's the mindset of most employees that would have to change. Good i18n/l10n requires some consideration of development…
Recruit owns Indeed and Glassdoor, which are doing pretty well beyond Japan.
I imagine these are acquisitions that already did well before they got bought.
Glassdoor is also becoming increasingly known for letting companies "bribe" them to delete bad reviews.