Zenken Reviews

3.0

56% would recommend to a friend

(11 total reviews)

29% positive business outlook

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1.0
26 Jan 2023

Cult-like

Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Made some good friends out of the whole experience, because we were all tortured in there and all made it out alive

Cons

Salary much lower than market average. Toxic motivation (e.g: you're praised if you can do everything and put all of your free time until 2 a.m to contribute to the company, etc). Lots of guilt tripping. Fake career advancement (salary doesn't really go up, only job title and workload). Might be a pleasant experience if you're talentless except at sales, and stay on the good side of management. The top executive guy said he is disgusted when he sees employees cry at work, while a team leader told the employee to go back to the bathroom to finish crying, because she should not show red eyes in front of other colleagues. Forbid employees to have private hang outs, and some foreign employees are even forbidden to have lunch together in the company's lunch room (probably because they speak English, and most suspect that they're in a cult). They advertise that they treat all employees Japanese and foreigners the same, but actually they mean the "expectations" are the same, a.k.a if you're a foreigner you must speak and act 100% Japanese in order to be left alone. The whole time there I just felt like heaven on the days I could just go on with my job without them creating some thing to torture me with. After 3 years leaving them, I finally got over my trauma to write a review.

1.0
26 Jan 2023

Avoid at all costs

Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Modern office with a lounge area Convenient location in Shinjuku

Cons

- Weird and strict rules such as being forbidden to speak English with other foreign employees, or having to ask permission to your manager before eating lunch with your colleagues - They will make you conform to their company culture, even if they have to break your soul and spirit to do it. The COO yells at crying employees. - If you can go through a couple years of abuse to become an "autonomous employee" then you might finally get treated better but you will probably be expected to do the same to the new recruits as a 'mentor'. - Pay is low, and the bonus were extremely low too. Much lower than the Japanese standard. - They use a loophole to make you work for free 30 minutes everyday between the end of the official time and the start of overtime, which is almost required to do everyday for one hour minimum. - They hate the phrase work/life balance. - If you join as a new graduate, they will assign your job and your department without taking your wish into consideration.

3.0
16 Nov 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Good company for people who has the will/motivation to push their own business ideas. Accepting of non-Japanese, though working culture is almost fully Japanese. Although very varying depending on the department. Very accepting of failure as a step for learning and getting closer to success.

Cons

Conservative work-place, does not allow for tech change unless you're willing to do it by yourself (in your time). Any type of evaluation for non-sales workers is non-existent. Almost no spending on improving skills of employees, even if it would be beneficial for work. Unrealistic estimates as people who are not involved in the development does the estimation. Nor is there much consideration taken into the skill-level of the employee. Little specializing, meaning most people are generalists doing everything. On the good side, this means you can experience various fields within development. However, it leaves you knowing a little bit of everything, and not very much about something specific.

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