How’s SmartNews company culture/ work life balance? I am expecting swe offer TC: 17mil + 2.5mil RSU (145k usd) With great allowances. The TC should be quite decent in Tokyo for 3.5 YoE? SmartNews is a startup company and RSU is literally paper money. Company with big portion of engineers employees and get to know quite some Chinese as well. I am worry about the work life balance and company culture. Any suggestion? #smartnews
I'm working at SmartNews tokyo office. It's very good work life balance. Employees basically start work at 10am and end work around 7pm. The reason for this is most employees are not Japanese. Btw, which level did you get for your offer such as l4, l5 (e4, e5)?
Most employees are not Japanese but Chinese, that’s why should be worried as it might be same with Chinese company like Bytedance now?
I got your point. Don’t worry about that. Not only Chinese, there are lots of foreigners such as Indian, Taiwanese, Vietnamese in tokyo office. Also, company has good understanding of wlb. Of course, it dependes on team you will join.
also having the later rounds of the interview. more worried about profitability heading into rate hiking times
How’s it?
Work life balance at SmartNews is good, a bit too good TBH.
That tc is great for SDE with 3 yoe in Tokyo.
What about the wlb? It’s my current main concern.
Not sure. Don’t have friends there. But I think it should be standard working hours around 35-40h.