Re: [tlug] FWIW: Google Japan Interview Experience

[Attila Kinali <attila@example.com>]

On Tue, 20 Nov 2007 05:49:38 +0900
"Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@example.com> wrote:

> The causes for the differences seem apparent.  "Normal" large Japanese
> companies don't much care who they hire, as long as the resume is good
> and the candidate doesn't have bad breath or other obvious social
> disabilities.  And once they've got you, they don't much care who you
> are (cf. the cases of "Blue Diode" Nakamura and "Nobel Prize" Tanaka).
> While this is distasteful to most Americans I know (including me),
> there are "good" reasons for this.  For the first, they trust their HR
> process to produce good employees in a year or two.  For the second,
> Japanese companies (as institutions) try to treat everybody well, and
> many succeed (although even in good companies a bad boss can make life
> hell for subordinates, and the employees have much less mobility than
> U.S. counterparts in the same situation, good companies are generally
> able to rein in such bad apples).

Now that sounds interesting. As i already know quite a bit
of the american hiring (and firing) process, i'd like to ask
whether there are any good books or other docu that discribe
how japanese companies hire and work with their employees?

Greetings from foggy white switzerland

			Attila Kinali
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