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Developers in Tokyo by [deleted] in Tokyo

[–]comradeluke 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This might be a good place to start: https://www.reddit.com/r/japanlife/comments/6mx5gu/besides_rakuten_smartnews_mercari_wantedly_and/

Besides Rakuten, SmartNews, Mercari, Wantedly, and Treasure Data, which Japanese tech companies are more open to hiring English-speaking engineers? by AllNightNippon in japanlife

[–]comradeluke 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Learn as much Japanese as you can, but still, aim for western companies or startups.

Besides Rakuten, SmartNews, Mercari, Wantedly, and Treasure Data, which Japanese tech companies are more open to hiring English-speaking engineers? by AllNightNippon in japanlife

[–]comradeluke 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hi, yes, generally within two weeks. But we got a massive response from that comment and it happened to be right before all of our senior engineers were scheduled to go on a business trip so we are running a bit behind... so sorry if we have kept you waiting.

Luke

Besides Rakuten, SmartNews, Mercari, Wantedly, and Treasure Data, which Japanese tech companies are more open to hiring English-speaking engineers? by AllNightNippon in japanlife

[–]comradeluke 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Then send us a CV:)

Besides Rakuten, SmartNews, Mercari, Wantedly, and Treasure Data, which Japanese tech companies are more open to hiring English-speaking engineers? by AllNightNippon in japanlife

[–]comradeluke 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not really. For example we have our own designers on the team and one of the requirements for hiring them is the ability to communicate about their designs in English. Same with the external QA, we use a western company to ensure their are no issues there. Business and marketing teams in Japan don't speak the best English, but they generally don't interact directly with developers.

Besides Rakuten, SmartNews, Mercari, Wantedly, and Treasure Data, which Japanese tech companies are more open to hiring English-speaking engineers? by AllNightNippon in japanlife

[–]comradeluke 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It is not one of our immediate priorities, unless you happen to also have UX design skills?

Besides Rakuten, SmartNews, Mercari, Wantedly, and Treasure Data, which Japanese tech companies are more open to hiring English-speaking engineers? by AllNightNippon in japanlife

[–]comradeluke 0 points1 point  (0 children)

React isn't quite as popular in Tokyo as it is in the west, but it is growing, so you might be lucky.

Besides Rakuten, SmartNews, Mercari, Wantedly, and Treasure Data, which Japanese tech companies are more open to hiring English-speaking engineers? by AllNightNippon in japanlife

[–]comradeluke 1 point2 points  (0 children)

yes.

Besides Rakuten, SmartNews, Mercari, Wantedly, and Treasure Data, which Japanese tech companies are more open to hiring English-speaking engineers? by AllNightNippon in japanlife

[–]comradeluke 9 points10 points  (0 children)

We pay a lot better than average for Tokyo, but obviously can't match silicon valley levels. We want to hire good people and keep them, and know that salary is a big part of that.

Besides Rakuten, SmartNews, Mercari, Wantedly, and Treasure Data, which Japanese tech companies are more open to hiring English-speaking engineers? by AllNightNippon in japanlife

[–]comradeluke 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Unfortunately not. DMM's core business actually turns away a lot of corporate and educational companies.

Besides Rakuten, SmartNews, Mercari, Wantedly, and Treasure Data, which Japanese tech companies are more open to hiring English-speaking engineers? by AllNightNippon in japanlife

[–]comradeluke 4 points5 points  (0 children)

With regards to disrupting the standard Eikaiwa market, we have already done fairly well. DMM Eikaiwa already has 40k + active users in Japan, and is growing. I think it is mainly the convenience of it, not having to go to a physical school at a set time (we see a lot of usage 10pm - Midnight for example). The corporate side is harder, but even with iKnow! (essentially just a study app) we have had some success. Oh, and we are not limiting ourselves to Japan, and are seeing a lot of growth in Korea and Taiwan.

What's the tech stack for DMM Eikawa

Backend: AWS/Docker/Linux/Ruby/Rails/Postgres

Frontend: Es6/React/Redux, introducing typescript.

Besides Rakuten, SmartNews, Mercari, Wantedly, and Treasure Data, which Japanese tech companies are more open to hiring English-speaking engineers? by AllNightNippon in japanlife

[–]comradeluke 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I think it is.

Besides Rakuten, SmartNews, Mercari, Wantedly, and Treasure Data, which Japanese tech companies are more open to hiring English-speaking engineers? by AllNightNippon in japanlife

[–]comradeluke 6 points7 points  (0 children)

1.) What is average age of your team?

The average age is late 20s. Though this tends to be more due to the sort of people we see wanting to move to Japan, and we are not looking for engineers with any particular level of experience.

2.) How big is your team currently?

The Tokyo tech team is 14 people in technical roles (Dev/Sysops/Testing), and 5 support staff. But this is part of a larger company.

3.) Are you looking for a full stack, backend, or frontend developer?

Any of the above. We don't have predefined roles or subteams (with the exception of mobile), but find most people tend to gravitate to front/back depending on their skills/interests.

4.) What is the Tech-staff breakdown (dev,qa,ops,etc)?

12 Developers, 2 QA, 1 Devops. But we also use a third party company for some of our QA work.

5.) What need(s) are you trying to fulfill with this position

Mainly we are just trying to build capacity. We have gone from just building iKnow!, to completely rebuilding Eikaiwa (and releasing it in multiple countries). Though we would love to find some people with experience in webRTC or NLP/ML.

6.) How long has your team been in existence and you have been CTO?

The team has a 12+ year history, originally as part of an independent company. I've been in the CTO role for the past year, but was previously the head of R&D for four years.

Besides Rakuten, SmartNews, Mercari, Wantedly, and Treasure Data, which Japanese tech companies are more open to hiring English-speaking engineers? by AllNightNippon in japanlife

[–]comradeluke 25 points26 points  (0 children)

We have an English speaking work environment at DMM Eikaiwa/iKnow.jp and we are currently hiring. I'm the CTO, and would be happy to answer questions.

Other than us or the other companies mentioned here, your best bet is the startup scene, they tend to be more open to non-Japanese speakers. There is a mailing list on TokyoDev that occasionally posts positions targeting English speakers.

Working at DMM? Company culture? by 999Sepulveda in japanlife

[–]comradeluke 0 points1 point  (0 children)

thankfully.

Working at DMM? Company culture? by 999Sepulveda in japanlife

[–]comradeluke 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I just wonder what insight they expect to get out of a personality test... basically modern day phrenology.

Working at DMM? Company culture? by 999Sepulveda in japanlife

[–]comradeluke 0 points1 point  (0 children)

sigh

Working at DMM? Company culture? by 999Sepulveda in japanlife

[–]comradeluke 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Basically just strong software engineering fundamentals. Apart from that, we are happy to help new hires learn the particular skills/languages/frameworks they need.

Working at DMM? Company culture? by 999Sepulveda in japanlife

[–]comradeluke 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I work at DMM in IT, and to be honest, it is very hard to know how to answer your question without knowing which department the posting was for (I know of 3 teams that are currently recruiting foreigners for technical roles, including mine).

Basically the individual departments have a lot more autonomy than at many companies, which can be good or bad thing depending on their managers. So while what AdventurerSen says is true for some groups, there are a couple of teams that are really nice to work for (like ours, iKnow!, did I mention we were hiring?)

The office itself is fairly nice, and we are moving to a brand new building in a couple of months. You do see a lot of strange stuff around the office (e.g. the idol groups coming in for photo shoots, or the robot group setting up 50 robi robots to do a dance routine). The definition of NSFW obviously also differs from a lot of other companies.

PM me if you have any specific questions.

Fellow iknow.jp users, I need your advice (I guess?) by vikutoru-da in LearnJapanese

[–]comradeluke 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hi, I am the head of R&D at iKnow! and am one of those responsible for the scheduling (and indirectly progress) algorithms. Normally we would expect users to have mastered items long long before getting to the 100 hours studied mark, but your use case (100mins per day!) seems to be quite different from our regular users, so there are three things it might help for you to know.

First, if you are studying that much, you should be starting way more than just 10 new items a day. If you leave the items selector on "All" (the default setting), you will get a ratio of about 1:4 between new and review items which works for most users. If the reviews are getting to heavy, do some sessions with it set to "started only", if it is not enough do a few with "new only" (though it is best to spread these out over several days).

If I'm done before 100 mins time, I spend the rest of it in sentence training.

Second, I'm guessing given that you are only starting 10 items and doing the necessary reviews, that you therefore end up spending a lot of time in sentence trainer? Well Sentence training doesn't contribute directly to item progress (or mastery). It is mainly intended to practice using/understanding those words in context (there is actually seperate scheduling algorithm for sentences, but the progress you have make there isn't as obvious in the UI).

And third, if you keep up with reviews like you are, and don't overstudy non-ready items, it normally takes a bit over 2 months from when items are started before they start becoming mastered (Mastered is based on having a certain predicted forgetting interval which is quite long, and takes time to reach via SRS). So my guess would be that you will get a bunch of items starting to be masted over the next few weeks, if you don't PM and we will take a look at your account stats directly.

So yeah, start more items, spend less time in sentence training, wait a couple more weeks, and consider balancing your study time with other apps/textbooks? (100mins per day really is a lot for iKnow!) And if you have any questions, let me know.

Weighing scale? by chrisZk in d3js

[–]comradeluke 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Takes two values, and does what with them?

Alternative to iKnow? by sh4rpsh00t in LearnJapanese

[–]comradeluke 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The most common alternative is Anki, but I am curious what about the management changes and what other stuff that has made you unhappy?

Overlapping wars means nobody will peace out. by Akewstick in eu4

[–]comradeluke 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You could declare war on Cleves. I hate it when this happens...

Software Engineering Positions in Tokyo at Language Technology Company [xpost from r/japanlife] by comradeluke in LearnJapanese

[–]comradeluke[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Someone more on the programming/DBA end.

Software Engineering Positions in Tokyo by comradeluke in japanlife

[–]comradeluke[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Depending on the nature of the experience, that could be sufficient.

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