I was a technical translator at a prefectural tech incubator in Gifu (on the JET Programme) and badgered my way into their R&D group.https://twitter.com/jesslynnrose/status/907236020923629568 …
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"This interview is just to get a look at you and give us all the excuse to have tea together. First day much less awkward that way."
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And thus began a few years in the salt mines which, in clarity of hindsight, I wish I could get back. But networking: it works everywhere.
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Incidentally: I've been told that this is an Inscrutable Japanese Thing to offer a candidate. No. This is TOTALLY a thing in American tech.
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Another line from that interview, and I swear this is literally accurate: "Oh, you're white. Not that there's anything wrong with that."
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"What did Sponsor lead you to expect?" "Oh he masked out your name on your resume so I assumed that you were American Japanese."
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Wait, do the Japanese have the same reflexive apologizing as Canadians?
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