Pros
- Fantastic opportunity to work in a Japanese language workplace. - Great work environment with friendly coworkers who are passionate about what they do. - Management great at handling interpersonal conflicts and expanding employee roles to suit employees' interests and strengths. - When the work is interesting it can be really fun and rewarding. Each role has quite a range of responsibilities. - Good employee benefits and no unpaid overtime. - A good place to start a career: gain experience while building skills on the side (through post grad etc).
Cons
- Low pay for local staff. - Little career or pay advancement. - Menial tasks make up the bulk of most roles. There is a lot of sitting at a desk emailing people or making excel sheets in between the occasional interesting and varied work. - Main office area has no windows which makes the office feel a bit gloomy and sterile. - Fairly high turn over of staff due to Japanese staff being reassigned and local staff having few advancement opportunities.