Hey, thanks for taking the time for answering that. Your answers are realy helpful.
- Definitely an interesting way to look at it, I am not sure whether I would be able to convince myself of this though, based on the cultural difference I have grown up with.
- The US company thing sounds great, even entry level tech roles have $150k+ comps, and I think in Japan that should still be really good.
- I can live with a little bit of racism and I think learning language of the land is kind of a good thing anyway, if I do plan to live long term.
- I think with Covid forcing companies to allow WFH possibly in the long term should definitely make it easier. Japan seems to have beautiful countryside and small towns, so it would be a shame if I don't get to experience that. :)
The culture bit is quite interesting indeed. Other than Buddhism, foreign religions haven't been able to get much foothold there it seems. Even Buddhism lives alongside Shinto and folk religions from what I have read.
I think one more good thing about Japan is their PR is points based and last I checked, I qualified for the fast track one based on points.
A bit worried about the Gaijin bubble thing, I would have assumed even the US company offices would have a lot of Japanese employees.
From one of your remark it seems like you are planning on moving out, are you planning to go back to your home country or some other place?
USD 150k is roughly JPY 16M, which is 2-3x an entry-level salary here. Google might be laying that down for new graduates, but they'd be the only ones that are.
- Definitely an interesting way to look at it, I am not sure whether I would be able to convince myself of this though, based on the cultural difference I have grown up with.
- The US company thing sounds great, even entry level tech roles have $150k+ comps, and I think in Japan that should still be really good.
- I can live with a little bit of racism and I think learning language of the land is kind of a good thing anyway, if I do plan to live long term.
- I think with Covid forcing companies to allow WFH possibly in the long term should definitely make it easier. Japan seems to have beautiful countryside and small towns, so it would be a shame if I don't get to experience that. :)
The culture bit is quite interesting indeed. Other than Buddhism, foreign religions haven't been able to get much foothold there it seems. Even Buddhism lives alongside Shinto and folk religions from what I have read.
I think one more good thing about Japan is their PR is points based and last I checked, I qualified for the fast track one based on points.
A bit worried about the Gaijin bubble thing, I would have assumed even the US company offices would have a lot of Japanese employees.
From one of your remark it seems like you are planning on moving out, are you planning to go back to your home country or some other place?