Good for exposure bad to stay - 3D Animator CyberConnect2 Employee Review

CC2 has a potential to be a really good company but sadly they never gonna achieve it soon. - Depends to team but generally you have super talented and helpful people around you. -You can work on really famous manga and anime IP’s. -You can improve yourself a lot if you are lucky to get in a good team and pay attention to work -Easy to get hired and get a work visa. -Foreigners working there are super friendly and gives you a good social environment. -If you are a foreigner nobody can pressure you to do overtime. Let me explain this more. Normally there's no overtime in the company. At least on surface. Management don't ask you to stay and work most of the time but there are few exceptions which I'll write those in the cons section. -Fukuoka is super nice city.

- Most of games you work on are mediocre or bad games. They don’t try to improve their technology either. -Low salary. Basically they offer you lowest possible number for your salary and no raise in following years. Worst part of this, your low salary numbers follows you like a plague for your next job search if you intend to stay in Japan. Because in Japan they don’t judge your skills first, they ask your previous salary. You can’t ask a decent amount if your previous salary is low. There’s no way you can lie about it cause if you get hired then you have to give them your previous pay slip for tax purposes. - Overtime. Like I said before if you are a foreign person they don’t ask you to do it but they try to guilt trip and pressure you sometimes. Most of the time projects gets late and management asks for endless crunch time for projects. It can continue one month or one year. You might get asked to work on weekends and holidays too. You can always refuse but they will try to pressure you more. -Bad and toxic managers. They escalate bad situations more and bully people. Some top people are xenophobic so they listen Japanese staff more than you. -Grunt work. As a foreigner they never trust you completely and give you most basic and boring work with bad deadlines. They don’t listen your ideas either.

Free snacks, allowed to do work on the side

Forces women in the promotion department (not the men) to learn to serve tea and wait on the other men. Will not give you work if you don't get along with the employees. The company also has a "morals committee" where they will send a digital survey every week to employees to check up on how they're "upholding order," and to let them report any "problematic" employees to the higher-ups so they can get scolded and the employees don't have to solve problems with others on their own. It makes one unable to trust anyone around them. The company also has a popularity vote twice a year, and whoever gets the most votes from fellow employees for being the most popular gets a monetary bonus. The president says his opinions as fact, and is unwilling to take any advice on anything despite not having adequate knowledge in the area (for example: the foreign market). When they wouldn't give me work because they thought I wouldn't get along with the employees, they instead gave me the task of "watching the president's favorite anime and sentai shows." It broke down my mental health and forced me to resign even before they decided they didn't need me anymore. I never even met my superior who was in Fukuoka, and was constantly neglected with nothing to do. Was forced to translate novels with the excuse that it was "promotion work" despite not being paid a translator's salary.