When you’ve ever dreamed of working at Nintendo in Japan and occur to be an “common individual”, you may need to rethink.

Former Nintendo worker and 45-year-old online game artist Miura Koichi lately shared some perception concerning the firm on social media – describing his time there as “hell” as a result of he was simply an “common” worker. This put up ended up going viral and obtained 25 million views.

He additional defined how Nintendo was like a “haven for geniuses” and superhumans, and whereas he actually thinks the corporate and its staff are “great”, it is apparently not the place you need to be if you cannot match this degree of enthusiasm. This allowed Koichi to understand he wasn’t truly suited to the position and so he determined to pursue different objectives.

Koichi is now a contract CG designer and has beforehand labored at firms like Bandai Namco and Sq. Enix. He additionally went into element concerning the wage he obtained at every firm all through his profession, revealing how he jumped from round $46,000 at Sq. Enix to $70,000 when he joined Nintendo.

Koichi is not searching for everlasting employment so he does not really feel he has something to lose from revealing this data and hopes to enhance transparency about working situations in Japan. He additionally pressured how he did not need to deter anybody from becoming a member of Nintendo, he simply wished to share his personal expertise and hurdles.

Though this may not be essentially the most glowing account, Nintendo does appear to have quite a lot of attraction – with a report in September revealing it had a brand new worker retention fee of 98.8% in Japan, which is effectively above the nationwide common of 70%.