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by new299 3059 days ago
"Far better to do it at a startup (or at AppAmaGooBookSoft) than at a traditionally-managed Japanese company"

From what I've seen at least Google and Amazon don't have much engineering effort beyond localization in Japan. I'm curious to know if any of these guys are hiring for Software Engineering or SRE type roles (in Japan).
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patio11 3059 days ago
Yes, AppAmaGooBookSoft are hiring for software engineering and SREs in Tokyo. No, your perception that they do not have much engineering effort is not materially reflective of reality.

Google's open job reqs: https://careers.google.com/jobs#t=sq&q=j&li=20&l=false&jlo=e...

That's the public version. If you want the non-public version, take any one of several thousand people in Tokyo out for a beer.

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hkmurakami 3059 days ago
Can confirm that this is decidedly not the case for either GOOG or AMZN.

Many engineers on Google Chrome team are in Tokyo (Japan has quite a few experts in low level programming, and culturally excel at optimizing for speed).

Amazon Japan has engineers working on original products and features on their ecommerce storefront.

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