How is working at Woven by Toyota in Japan on Woven City?
I'm currently interviewing for a role on the Digital Twin Platform of the Woven City project. I'm seeking to relocate to Japan. A lot of the news I've read about WbT over the past year seems to be about troubles with the Arene project, or troubles working at the US-based Woven offices. These stories have me concerned about joining the company. But I am wondering if Woven City / Digital Twin is different. I haven't found much coverage of that side of things. How's leadership on Woven City, specifically? How's WLB and TC? What about career growth within the Woven City project? Is the software team at Woven City producing anything tangible yet? #WovenByToyota #Japan #WovenCity
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Thanks. This doesn’t apply to me. I’m looking for insight on Woven City, specifically, not living in Japan in general.
Can't speak of working on Woven City, but I've worked with teams from there. Most of the folks are Japanese, so they don't speak English really well and want things written in Japanese or translated. They seemed hard working and smart, but they were eager to deliver a perfect piece of software from day 1, no delays, which is not what agile methodologies are meant for. They seemed to be doing interesting things but I would think that Japanese business culture is more predominant than in other parts of Woven. Looots of discussions on how to do things and why, tons of approvals from everybody to get something moving forward, and after that, they expect a flawless delivery and on time.
Things written on blind about non-city teams often apply to city teams as well. One difference is that city teams are much more Japanese, where the leadership consists of managers/engineers from Toyota that brought their process-oriented work style (as opposed to goal oriented). This also means that regular WbT employees are just glorified contractors career-wise. WLB is great, so if you are OK with wasting Toyota's money on some fun stuff that will likely never provide commercial value, this might be for you.
How is the pay for senior engineers?
Woven City seems to be the only part growing at the moment in terms of headcount
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Can you offer any more details? How’d you form this opinion?