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Re: Japan's NTT to begin remote work as norm for 30k employees

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Post by KptMarchewa »

ThrowawayR2 wrote: post #78
grapeskin wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That’s the reality for big Japanese tech companies. They pay you in reputation, and reputation doesn’t transfer to other big corps since they see frequent job changes (sometimes capped at twice in a lifetime) as a red flag and won’t hire people.

Kind of makes me wonder why there hasn't been a brain drain from Japan like there has been from elsewhere in Asia and Europe to the various tech hubs. Is the culture just too difficult to leave behind? Yes, it is a G7 country with first world living standards but expatriates from other first world countries are not rare in the tech hubs.

Pretty closed culture, relatively bad at speaking English, and they are still very rich - closest "better" country to live is US.

Re: Japan's NTT to begin remote work as norm for 30k employees

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Post by rat9988 »

bobthepanda wrote: post #76
lotsofpulp wrote: post #48

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If the reputation has no utility for the employee, why would the employee accept payment in the form of reputation? Is the employee oblivious to the lack of utility of reputation?

There's a couple of things not mentioned here. Due to the more or less deflationary economy, Japanese wages have not increased for the better part of three decades. (Deflating prices mean that even with stagnant wages, you're still able to buy more.) Job hopping is unlikely to actually result in increased wages. (Inflation is now coming to Japan due to the general global inflation from the war in Ukraine, so that wil…

You need a guarantor in france too so I wouldn't say it's unique to japan.

Re: Japan's NTT to begin remote work as norm for 30k employees

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Post by spike021 »

sofixa wrote: post #14
nine_zeros wrote: post #4

Good. As an oil importing country, their fuel consumption will keep going lower

I really doubt many people in Japan commute by car.

Have you been to Japan? It often seems like people who have never been only have this ideal in their minds that everyone in Japan travels by bullet train or local commuter trains.

There are many bus routes, and many people who still own and drive their own cars even in larger cities like Tokyo or Osaka.

Re: Japan's NTT to begin remote work as norm for 30k employees

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Post by KerrAvon »

oblio wrote: post #77
DeathArrow wrote: post #40

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How bad is pretty bad?

I don't know about NTT, but salaries for software devs are really low in general. Think €30-40k per year. How FAANG are not leveraging such a poorly paid workforce in countries with a great climate, developed, safe, etc, I will never know.

They do. At least some of the FAANG have important software development offices in Japan.

Re: Japan's NTT to begin remote work as norm for 30k employees

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Post by bamboozled »

oblio wrote: post #77
DeathArrow wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How bad is pretty bad?

I don't know about NTT, but salaries for software devs are really low in general. Think €30-40k per year. How FAANG are not leveraging such a poorly paid workforce in countries with a great climate, developed, safe, etc, I will never know.

Because any good talent leaves Japan immediately for the USA as soon as they can for better pay and a more relaxed life?

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Post by geodel »

pg_1234 wrote: post #73
quartesixte wrote: post #71

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Social reputation is still big in Japan. Reputation is also highly correlated with company stability in Japan. Such reputation buys you things like A) easier time attracting a future spouse B) respect in certain social circles and transactions, transferrable to your partner and children (yes this is a thing) C) a network of individuals also “smart and hardworking” like you

F**k that, I'll take cash!

I mean of course. It is always preferable option if available.

Re: Japan's NTT to begin remote work as norm for 30k employees

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Post by geodel »

oblio wrote: post #77
DeathArrow wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How bad is pretty bad?

I don't know about NTT, but salaries for software devs are really low in general. Think €30-40k per year. How FAANG are not leveraging such a poorly paid workforce in countries with a great climate, developed, safe, etc, I will never know.

Yeah, FAANG can just hire all the engineers at NTT, all these Indian IT outsourcing companies, European tech companies and other I might have missed. I mean for christ sake this is 2022. If every CRUD micro services peddler and every network engineer who solves 5 firewall opening issues in a day couldn't get USD 200K / year for 6 hr work day, free food and drinks, onsite laundry, massage, haircut and medical checkup. What is the point of even living on this polluted earth.

Re: Japan's NTT to begin remote work as norm for 30k employees

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Post by geodel »

mkl95 wrote: post #5
samfisher83 wrote: post #2

Ntt has 320k employees. I wonder what the other 290 will think?

In Southern Europe NTT is mostly a bodyshop. Their target demographic is junior engineers willing to do unpaid overtime for abysmal pay. Pretty sure remote work doesn't make a big difference.

In US too, it is close to a bodyshop. In fact I had friends there who would get full or partial work from home in 2014 or so. Not sure about pay as I didn't check. I was more enamored by WFH as I had to commute 2-3 hrs/day daily for work in those days.

Re: Japan's NTT to begin remote work as norm for 30k employees

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Post by liketochill »

ajmurmann wrote: post #64
bin_bash wrote: post #27

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They hardly produce any nuclear anymore. Natural gas is the largest source by far. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_sector_in_Japan EDIT: these numbers appear to be old, since 2019 they’ve tuned reactors back on and stopped relying on LNG as much. I can’t find good numbers on recent data but in 2019 they imported more gas than any other country.

I wonder why geothermal isn't big there. I'd naively assume that they could get a significant portion to their electricity from geothermal. Does anyone know what's preventing Japan from doing that?

Without knowing how good a geothermal resource they have, I imagine it is similar to what prevents it from being popular where I live where there is a fantastic geothermal resource: Economics, know how, FUD
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