From European student to full-time software developer in Japan.
...Applying to Colorkrew from abroad
About 2 years ago I started thinking about what I wanted to do after graduating. I had been living and studying in Groningen, which has a population of about 200.000 people, and I decided that my next city would be Tokyo. I had visited Japan a couple of times as a student to join a conference or do some sightseeing, but I had never lived there. In fact, I had never lived outside of the Netherlands before.
The More Bugs You Write, the More You Learn: An Ever-evolving Web Engineer!
...Hi! I’m Kiyo from HR and Branding projects!
I’m presenting the vol.6 of Let’s talk with Colorkrew engineers!
This time we talked with Mr. Nishida (usually going by Nishi), the developer of the inhouse product of push notification and authentification service, “Mamoru PUSH,”and a business tool with QR codes to reduce office duties regarding personnel, resource, and money, “Mamoru Biz.” Among the others who join Colorkrew after working for other companies, he entered soon after his graduation and has been here for six years as a web engineer. He has experience in the backend, app-development, infrastructure, front-end, and now is working as a full-stack developer.
A Developer, a Recruiter, and a Trainer! Multi-talented Mr. "Readable Code"
...Hi! I’m Kiyo from HR and Branding projects!
I’m presenting the vol.7 of let’s talk with Colorkrew engineers!
This time we talked with Jan, the developer of “Mamoru Biz,” a business concierge tool dealing with QR codes to reduce office duties regarding personnel, resource, and money. He’s a web engineer who leads the team as the product development leader. Now, Colorkrew has various nationalities of members, but at the time he entered, he was the first non-Japanese engineer.
The story of Daniel, Colorkrew Brazil founder!
...Boa tarde！ Oops! My Portuguese came out! Hi, I’m Ai, Colorkrew’s PR manager. Today’s article is about Daniel from Brazil!
Goalous debut in Brazil!
He worked for Colorkrew in Japan until 2019 and now he’s in Brazil, to promote Goalous and other Colokrew’s services in Brazil
In September 2020, right in the middle of the COVID-19 crisis, Goalous, an SNS-type objective management tool, has started the first service in Brazil. This is exactly thanks to Daniel!
The Pitfalls in "Eliminating Insensitivity"
...Japan as a high context culture
Japanese culture is said to be a “high context culture.”
The ‘context’ here refers to the cultural background, such as customs, knowledge, and values that each of us has.
In a high context culture, the background has been mutual understanding, and the people there assume “you know what I mean before I tell you, don’t you?”