Good for starting your career / Who want to wear multiple hats - Software Engineer Tokyo Techies Employee Review

3.0
29 May 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

- High degree of freedom to try multiple things like backend , frontend, project management, devops, etc - Flexible work environment with 1 day in office and remaining can be hybrid - Decent pay when starting out - CEO is kind and respectful - Organisation is quite flat

Cons

- Business is mainly so heavily dependent on few recurring projects to sustain income. - Has a product side offering but it's market fit is quite weak and not profitable. Has been under redevelopment 3 times over 4 years due to confused management vision - Only a few in management who empathise with the pain points of an engineer. Rest either don't understand engineering well or are non technical, as such leadership is not to the mark. - Inexperienced engineers make the bulk so there are not many well defined processes or industry standards being followed - As an engineer, management path might get forced upon you after certain years. - Often need to handle atleast two or three projects at the same time leading to split focus. Might be a pro for people who want to try multiple things. - Certain managers are micromanaging and at times toxic in their dealings. Not all managers are like that ,but a few. The organisation seems to be trying to change by implementing anonymous 360° feedback - Compensation is not enough after reaching certain years of experience.

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1.0
25 Nov 2025
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Just international I guess. Nothing else.

Cons

-Founder is a two faced liar -Office is the most filthy and unsafe place you can imagine. It's actually farcical how they think that space is an office. -They don't have enough clients so are losing employees as they don't have enough work to do -In general, they don't have money

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2.0
26 Aug 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Normal to slightly below average salary for starting out. Remote work with 1 day in office a week

Cons

Product direction is confusing, managers will want one thing then forget about it the next week. Engineering talent is highly lacking due to not being able to retain engineers for long. For this reason, highly lacking in mentorship. Extremely high turnover rate for a small company. Lots of managers that veers into micro management that makes the working environment toxic.

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