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> As a Japanese speaking programmer I basically don’t have any competition in the job market.

does this actually come up in the hiring anywhere? you tell google you speak japanese fluently and you're just in the door?

in my limited experience everyone seems content to pretend that the asian staff's english is good enough, even when it is a constant comedy of errors.




Recruiters don’t think that non-Japanese people who know how to program AND speak the language well exist.

So I basically show up for positions that ask for a native Japanese that’s willing to work abroad. I then promote myself based on technical and cultural skills.

I’ve legitimately unstuck projects that were stuck for years and getting nowhere within few months because I improved communication and information retrieval.

In Germany we have many companies that have a large amount of Japanese customers, but they get nowhere with English. Meanwhile Japanese send some engineers over as sales support instead of establishing a proper local subsidiary that is not just a proxy for sales.




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