If you are local Japanese... STAY AWAY!!
Pros
Nothing. Only good thing I can think of about this bank is that I no longer work here. Bottom line: avoid any "Bilingual-Japanese blah blah" type of job at this bank. Especially if you have a undergrad or graduate degree from schools in US, find somewhere else before letting your career die.
Cons
Seriously, find somewhere else for the sake of your career success. - Expats from Tokyo treat you like a dirt. Your experience, education, or English fluency will never be appreciated. If you are a local guy, you are a second-class citizen. - If you want to be a local management, be as mean to your colleague as expats - Too inefficient. They can't do anything without printing everything on paper. - Some of them are so inept that they don't even know excel shortcut. Yes we are "investment bankers" - Some other doesn’t even speak/write English. Yes, we are a "global financial group" - Comp is meh. Or you could say it's decent, considering all those monkey jobs you'll end up doing. - Micro management. You have to spend 1 hour a day to report what you did for the day. - Face-time. Those Japanese management mistake staying late for hard work. - Japanese management really discourage you to take day-off or work from home, even when snow storm cripples public transportation in NYC metro. - They don't want you to think. They only want you to be a trained monkey. - poor IT infrastructure - HR is a joke. a) They offer internal mobility for career development. Oh wait, you are in Japanese corp? Then this option is not yours. b) They have hotline for workplace issue such as harassment. But they back away if expats are involved in harassment. I saw a friend of mine left because of that. c) Recently many of HR function were relocated to Arizona as de facto out-sourcing. HR staffs there don't have a clue about bank's HR policy.
