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Headless chickens running around - Marketing Specialist Bridgestone Global Employee Review

2.0
Aug 27, 2008
Recommend
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Pros

Good name to put in the CV and gather some international work experience; you have some exposure to the Japanese minds running the business and many international colleagues that make it a nicer time.

Cons

Quite high staff rotation due to poor career opportunities for non-japanese staff and little to learn after 3 months in the job. Very piramidal organization but not clear direction from senior management. Decission making is done in Japanese only meetings and very little feedback is given to the rest of the organization. Some japanese managers believe they can dictate on their subordinates like the shogun on his slaves; even if you are a manager you will have to get used to be the taxi driver, delivery boy,...

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