Pluspunten
These are the pros: 1) No need to have management or technical skill to be executive or manager. 2) If you are hired in Japan and assigned to US as 100% of managers here in Crimson House West, you have additional benefits: - They rent luxurious house in popular places like Redhood city - They pay your car loan. Believe me, they can sell the car and get the money if they are assigned to return to Japan - In Japan, HR do not verify your credentials like if you really have Scrum Certification. - Managers do not need to care if the project will fail because you will never get fired and you can always blame your team. It is because they only care to meet the schedule. If the project is wrong or the tasks are unrealistic, it is not manager fault since their bosses know that they do not have technical or business skills. The faults are always the team members. So you are 100% safe if you are from Japan.
Minpunten
You will not be promoted if you are MBA from good schools or competent engineer . I will explain why. (MBA means graduated in administrative courses) 1) The projects are mostly technically wrong. If you try to correct, you will be bullied by the managers. It is because, you will show to the president that the project is wrong and impact in all the US management. So if you try to correct, you will be excluded from the team. 2) Since the project is wrong and it will fail, the MBA and engineer will be blamed. So no way to escape. 3) MBA must approve all the wrong decisions because all the legacy of current problems are caused by the actual managers and leaders and they want to hide from the president. 4) Again, employees with MBA will be blamed. And you have to confirm that it was your idea and you were incapable to find the problems. 5) The managers are bullies because it is the only way to make to respect them (by fear). In case you don't do what they tell you to do: a) If you was assigned from Japan, probably you will be assigned back to Japan and never again assigned to US again. b) If you are US employee, you will be fired or invited to leave very quick. After you leave the company, all the current problems will be assigned to you. It is how they survives and hides the problem. So they are always hiring new employees. 6) Evaluations. they evaluate your performance in 1 to 7 scale. Here is the problem, you work very hard to try to meet impossible goal and of course you will fail in something like deadline. They will give you 1, no matter how many times you worked until late or at home. 7) Only way to be promoted is to enter in their circle. It means you have to support them and act like them. If you can't be like them, you will probably be target to their bullying and get fired, blamed,.... Therefore, competent people does not fit under their management. Unfortunately, Rakuten manager profile are: - bad education background or education not related to the business like graduation in education, philosophy , music school, ex-pilot( yes pilot) - Dubious credentials. When they were employed in Rakuten (5 years ago). HR did not check the authenticity of their credentials. E.g. They will believe in you if you tell in the interview that you are graduated in Harvard or have Scrum Master certification. - Not ethical and honest - They do not hesitate in blame someone for their faults. Ps.: Japan Rakuten Card is worst. They are the source of current management in Card US. It means the source of issue may be in Japan side. Those problem explains the high turnover of very good employees and also why US employees have low salary. It also explain why the president thinks the US employees are lazy. But, I don't know if the president does not know it. ( If he knows, then. something is very wrong)