Recently, many of Japan ERP, SAP development jobs, many programmers do not understand this aspect of friends, casually accepted the offer, then the ERP, the SAP Developer Kong in the end what is it? These people how to survive in Japan do?
I personally experience a feeling of the times back in the early 1960s, the United States experience the hard toil of those overseas Chinese compatriots. (Not so hard, but a lot of hard work than domestic!)
There are many Japanese companies under the banner of ERP, SAP development, as "people (fan) force (mai) capital (ren) source (kou)" existence of the company.
First out of the country than double the wages and benefits pile higher than domestic superior living conditions.
When waiting for a visa, please tell you seriously study Japanese, Han not control programming.
After going there, I got the "base salary": you eat only enough to pay the cheapest food.
After finding dispatch project in the company, tell you to "re-interview", after the success of, access to "basic salary" + "work pay."
Above, everything seems so great, without any problems, but hidden mystery.
The basic salary in Japan called "standby fee", which means you just arrived, you can only get the minimum subsistence allowances, had the poorest day. If you do not have a successful interview, then he has to take the minimal needs, or to force the company to do the project to gain experience, but please do your best to learn Japanese.
Standby environment: you can imagine to rent your own room, spent 10 slugger, knocking the code in there with you together, or to learn Japanese.
Bonus: there is no end of the year award year-end awards, this life is not the end of the year award. In Japan, the general bonus twice a year, once almost two months wages.
Living Environment: you can choose to live in company dormitories, you can also choose to find an intermediary to engage in their own house to live. Intermediaries to engage in house to live, then Tokyo month to almost 6w yen about 3600 yuan / month, but also thanks to fees, sponsor a bunch of mess things up for you. The company dormitory may be a lot cheaper, but there are a lot of problems, it may not have a light bulb, no beds, no blankets, no air conditioning, no stove. But the others have, refrigerators, washing machines and so on.
Commuter: because you have to "re-interview", so many times you could rent frequent replacement position, otherwise it will spend a lot of time and money "on the road." The Japanese commuter price is very expensive, starting at a station about 12 yuan now, and more will take less money.
Culture: Japan is a social weak country, and the National Privacy is very important, you are free to get in a word with the people, will be very safe, but no one will be friends with you, no one will correct your grammar errors. But life can not speak.
The language is too weak to write is not detailed enough, but also please understand, I hope small partners can ask me questions, so that we can organize more information to you! Q group: 397 497 521 (please inform violation, would delete this section)
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