If career step is important for you (and not free lunch), don't apply
Pros
Colleagues who enter the company at the same time as you will be your lifetime friends.
Cons
- You managers will be the one who block your career step by not allowing you to get experience other than the job you're stuck on. - Most HR people are retarded. They don't even listen or understand what you're saying, no matter how clear you make it sounds. - If you're being unlucky and trapped in a "wrong" department, you have to submit to a place where they force you to do morning gymnastic stuffs in japanese - an irony in a company that claims they are "global". - They will not bat an eye when many of Japanese merchants being racist to you because you're not a Japanese. Trust me, the salary doesn't pay the mental damage. - It's a no-surprise that suddenly your working hour changed from 9:30 to 9:00, and suddenly 8:30 and then 8:00. Otherwise you're seen as not contributing to the company and need to hand in your resignation. - Managers around you will be "unconsciously" criticised foreigners in front of you. Lack of understanding of global talents, and still shock that foreigners take holiday on Christmas.
