今年の初めにこのようなポストがありましたが、現在の状況は如何でしょうか？
https://www.reddit.com/r/JapanFinance/comments/1b1a57l/how_is_the_situation_at_indeed_japan_in_2024/
以下一部抜粋。
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Asking for a friend. A friend of mine is considering an engineering manager offer at Indeed. True to Indeed's reputation, the total package is top-notch, and they are seriously considering joining. However, from what they've heard, there are also some points of concern.
They were offered a position at Indeed Technologies Japan, not Indeed Japan. There was a rumor that this was a move to make laying people off easier in the future.
The bonus/RSU situation is not looking very good, with a lot of uncertainties.
A bunch of changing directives and reorganization.
For people who are familiar with the company, how is working at Indeed nowadays?
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I currently work at Indeed Japan, I would at least try to find another offer.
The vibe now is that there likely be another round of layoff in 1-2 months, as a new hire their job is probably not very safe, but then maybe they will get to keep their sign-on bonus, so maybe that's good?
There are big push from upper management on performance management, meaning performance ratings decided by manager and their manager get overrided to lower without explanation. I wouldn't want to be a manager when this happens.
Cost cutting everywhere, promotion becomes tricky, next to no bonus, unlikely to change soon.
It is no longer a healthy environment to develop your career.
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My general experience after joining in 2022 has gone something like this:
Team match onto a team that's pretty interesting and aligns with my experience
My first performance review is pretty mild due to 3 of my 4 projects getting canceled or delayed, but manager is understanding, so still effectively "Meets Expectations" with a little extra credit for the 1 project I drove
Get re-orged in May 2023 to a team that does stuff I don't care much about and don't have any related work on my resume. Whatever I guess, try my best
New manager seems understanding at first but decided my onboarding was going poorly after 3 months. What he considered to be "going poorly" was "tarsir isn't as productive as my other engineers who've been on the team for years, even though we've been giving tarsir nonsense work for 3 months and now the development tasks, which my other engineers also say are clusterfucks with landmines no one else had foreseen, are taking longer than we predicted when we made this ticket seven months ago"
For the most recent performance cycle, my manager literally took my self-eval, made shit up he added to it into a Google doc, then commented the shit he made up and asked me to explain it
My mental health is circling the fucking drain after dealing with that kind of toxic horseshit until my house finished building and then additionally hanging on until my first RSU vest
I'm making a Japanese resume for the first time just so I have more coverage to find an escape plan
I got burned early by the corporate feel-good stuff so I didn't care much about that when I joined, though it's definitely a drag that a lot of it has gone away. I can't deal with my manager anymore though. Plus, as others have said, we're doing stack ranking now, which means you're only a couple performance cycles away from someone deciding you're in the unlucky 10% and giving you poor ratings to justify letting you go, and even though it's really hard to fire people in Japan, this only makes it easier to say it was poor performance and "the company did everything they could", even if that means inconsistent application of the evaluation process.
