The Challenges of Hiring a New Engineer in Japan

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There's very few you know Silicon Valley based companies entire team from startup is in Japan. Almost no recruiting efforts from the US tech companies are done over there. The key challenge obviously I think is it time zone and language, especially at Cavis like our first anymore time was in Europe. And then that's not just about the Japanese team I think it's serious any engineering team involved.

Kohsuke Kawaguchi, the creator of Jenkins, pulls back the curtain on building tech companies in Japan. He shares his lessons from Cloudbees and how building two very different engineering organizations from the ground up showed him the importance of diversity in engineering teams.

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