Enjoy Diversity!

About me, About Rakuten

Name Hashiyama Makito ( 橋山 牧人 )

In Private Father of 2 daughters

Role In charge of APIs for Rakuten Ichiba services

TOEIC 650(in 2009) -> 840(in 2013)

Career Joined Rakuten in 2009 (5th year new grad)

About me

# of non-Japanese engineers

As of end of 07/2013

Team situation

• Colleagues– 2 Chinese, 1 Vietnamese, 1 Korean

• In-house client– French, Argentine, Taiwanese etc…

• Communication– mail, chat, meeting, presentation in English

Episode of working with non-Japanese

Episode of working with non-Japanese

How to hold a drinking party?

How to manage tasks during long vacation?

Episode of working with non-Japanese

How to bridge language gap?

○○ さんお疲れ様です。

以上、何卒宜しくお願いいたします。

In English?

or

Episode of working with non-Japanese

Advantage of diversity

Advantage of diversity

• Shortened working hours– Work efficiently– Consider various circumstances

• Speed up problem solving– Communicate with engineers all over the world

• Discover something new everyday– Different culture, different idea

Enjoy Diversity!