1. Outsourced to overseas team for certain tasks, but always have to check thoroughly & will be required to take the responsibility for them if there are mistakes. If in the first place this decision was taken, then appropriate hiring should've been done instead of doing double work of checking through. For such a big MNC to do this, it's practically unheard of and extremely inefficient.
2. It's 2025, but the work is extremely manual with 90% of work done on excel and internal systems are all in a mess and always comes back as "in the works". Huge volume of shared folder with no standardisation with every employee having different SOP so handover can be tricky.
3. Clear favouritism towards Japanese and westerners as they can outright refuse to cooperate with no repercussions. For context, every single of the office globally can participate in certain processes, but they can reject due to whatever reason or just refusing to take extra steps to participate, hence causing extra trouble for the entire team world-wide.
4. People here are extremely loyal, which means that there are no fresh blood to inject new ideas, and as a result the things done here are extremely rigid in accordance to the preferred style of the "old birds".
5. OT is extremely normal and it can be very frequent which can be up to 12am and it's normal to the people there (they don't even seem fazed by the concept of this).
6. Japanese culture extremely strong. Personally, doesn't align well with me as most of the time the attitude towards certain things is just as a result of "because-we're'-a-japanese-company"
