How and why I built Japan Dev
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How and why I built Japan Dev
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#2> But as a foreigner, most of the companies weren't a good fit. Some were too domestic. A lot didn't have any other westerners working there.
This is a great way to think about how important an inclusive company culture is to you - do you want your org to be thought of by non-natives like many HN posters would think of an old school Japanese one? In what ways is it unattractive to non-natives and do you actually value those characteristics?
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#3I'm getting a blank page. Looking at the source, there is no static content on it, only JS. I have JS turned on, but it seems CORS is blocking loading of JS.
Cross-Origin Request Blocked: The Same Origin Policy disallows reading the remote resource at https://static.cloudflareinsights.com/beacon.min.js/v652eace1692a40cfa3763df669d7439c1639079717194. (Reason: CORS request did not succeed).
None of the “sha512” hashes in the integrity attribute match the content of the subresource.
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#4This was incredibly well-written and an enjoyable story. Congratulations on pushing through and getting traction.
Something that resonated:
> We had to put 5 million JPY (~$45k at the time) in our business bank account and leave it there. For... some reason.
Living in Asia I've come across this bizarre government obsession with "money in the bank" when dealing with them:
"You need $15k in a bank account to apply"
"Ok well I have 20x that in an index ETF and it's been sitting there for a decade is that fine?"
"No you need to put that much in a bank account and leave it there for 6 months to qualify"
"What happens after the six months? I can simply take it out again?"
"Yes, that is acceptable"
[Confused Face]
No one seems to know why the rules exist, but everyone is certain there's a good reason for it.
Re: How and why I built Japan Dev
#5People interested in this article might also like this list of salary figures for japan. https://opensalary.jp/en/
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#6> So we share your jobs on our site. A candidate applies. You interview them and decide to hire them. You notify us you hired them. We send you an invoice. You pay us a fee.
I'm absolutely stunned that this works.
> For one thing, our contract imposes a late fee for failing to notify us of a successful hire. And the fee increases every month that they don't tell us. This is a pretty good deterrent.
Is it? It sounds like a pretty good deterrent to being honest...!
Anyway, I can't argue with the figures, if true.
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#7This was incredibly well-written and an enjoyable story. Congratulations on pushing through and getting traction. Something that resonated: > We had to put 5 million JPY (~$45k at the time) in our business bank account and leave it there. For... some reason. Living in Asia I've come across this bizarre government obsession with "money in the bank" when dealing with them: "You need $15k in a bank account to apply" "Ok…
That's weird. I've heard of requirements that business need to have a certain amount in cash reserves, just to guarantee that they can pay severance packages and other guarantees, to stop the owners from declaring bankruptcy too late. But asking for that and then letting them remove it from the account is just weird.
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#8> So we share your jobs on our site. A candidate applies. You interview them and decide to hire them. You notify us you hired them. We send you an invoice. You pay us a fee. I'm absolutely stunned that this works. > For one thing, our contract imposes a late fee for failing to notify us of a successful hire. And the fee increases every month that they don't tell us. This is a pretty good deterrent. Is it? It sounds l…
in Japan only
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#9I'm getting a blank page. Looking at the source, there is no static content on it, only JS. I have JS turned on, but it seems CORS is blocking loading of JS. Cross-Origin Request Blocked: The Same Origin Policy disallows reading the remote resource at https://static.cloudflareinsights.com/beacon.min.js/v652eace1692a40cfa3763df669d7439c1639079717194. (Reason: CORS request did not succeed). None of the “sha512” hashes…
It works in Firefox for me
Re: How and why I built Japan Dev
#10> So we share your jobs on our site. A candidate applies. You interview them and decide to hire them. You notify us you hired them. We send you an invoice. You pay us a fee. I'm absolutely stunned that this works. > For one thing, our contract imposes a late fee for failing to notify us of a successful hire. And the fee increases every month that they don't tell us. This is a pretty good deterrent. Is it? It sounds l…
Not sure how prevalent LinkedIn or a similar service is in Japan, but I'd imagine it'd be pretty easy to track how many clicks a customer was getting and investigating any that had anomalously high click / hire ratios.