Run as fast as you can
Gut am Arbeitgeber finde ich
Salary came quite early most times. Nice colleagues, international business.
Schlecht am Arbeitgeber finde ich
All the points mentioned above already. No understanding of european business at all. Maybe they should stick to japanese market only and refrain from going international without proper english knowledge.
Verbesserungsvorschläge
Close the company. Or install a non japanese person in Management (won't happen)
Arbeitsatmosphäre
Company atmosphere is based on mistrust. Japanese employees often were used as controllers to report people to the management if they came late for meeting or followed people to the toilet in one case.
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Wherever Uchiyama was mentioned the reaction of ex employees or people who had to deal with it was quite negative.
Work-Life-Balance
Home Office was skipped after numbers went worse. Overtime work was not compensated by free time or money.
Karriere/Weiterbildung
Nearly impossible or non existent. Maybe if you're japanese. Expats could perform however they want and still got way higher wages than the rest.
Gehalt/Benefits
At least there was a extra bonus granted. Salary in medium range for the position, but real jumps at wage negotiation not possible.
Umwelt-/Sozialbewusstsein
None, lots of paper waste. New "solutions" which included printing even more stuff instead of going digital. Here classic japanese work culture was lived in full.
Kollegenzusammenhalt
Between the colleagues it was a great atmosphere and it was fun to work with them.
Umgang mit älteren Kollegen
Often were packed with work load. Real thankfulness was rarely visible or was granted in silent without letting other people know.
Vorgesetztenverhalten
Lack of communication already mentioned above. Barely any resistance against unrealistic goals from Japan or lack of understanding of european business.
Arbeitsbedingungen
Quite old computers, very loud noise with nearly all people in one office. Cancelling home office was flagged as "revitalization of the company culture", but lead only to more private conversations, more gossip and angry employees.
Kommunikation
Rumors and infos spread several weeks in advance before the management officially announced it. Even the firing of people was only announced after people asked what happened to person X.
Gleichberechtigung
There were female managers in higher positions, although climbing the barely existing career ladder in the company was only possible for people with 5+ years in the company (which nearly nobody achieved before quitting themselves)
Interessante Aufgaben
The variety of tasks was fine, although at some point the routine was too high and after 4-5 hours often nothing else to do was left.