PhilosophyPHILOSOPHY
Bringing Japanese software engineers to their most aspirational profession
Core Value or "Jin" (仁)VALUES / JIN
3 VALUES
VAL-01
Work as Play
We believe that engaging in our work with a positive outlook, acting rather than merely feeling that we are "working", is what leads to truly creative endeavors. Some may also relate to this value through the words of Takasugi Shinsaku: "Make an uninteresting world interesting," a way of thinking about how to make work itself enjoyable.
VAL-02
Trust
Accomplishing anything meaningful requires building relationships with many stakeholders, and trust is the premise for any group to act together. Through genuine partnership, trusting one another and being trusted in return, we can lower the costs that inevitably arise in groups without trust, and act with greater agility. That said, because people are fallible, our systems must never rely on blind, unguarded trust. In most cases, building a one-to-one trust relationship takes time, accumulated through consistent actions, and we need to keep that in mind. Within a group, trust can also be passed along: if a person you trust in turn trusts someone else, that trust can extend to them as well, so once an individual has earned a certain level of trust, connections with others can sometimes form quickly without much time. Whatever the situation, what matters most is to value courtesy first, act with respect toward others, and build relationships in which trust can be exchanged.
VAL-03
Equality
In the world we aim to realize, we want a natural "hierarchy" or "difference" to emerge, one rooted in fairness, where people with real ability are properly recognized and rewarded. In that process we require true equality: no discrimination based on race or other such factors, and no evaluation driven solely by political motives. Equality does not mean sameness; it means a state in which, in the pursuit of fairness, we can each acknowledge and accept that we are different from one another.
FULL STRUCTURE OF VALUES AND CODE OF CONDUCT
See how our values and code of conduct fit togetherSTRUCTURE MAP (MIRO) ↗Code of Conduct or "Rei" (礼)PRINCIPLES / REI
8 PRINCIPLES
PRN-01
Ownership
On the path to realizing our philosophy, policies may change overnight and areas of responsibility can become unclear. This guideline exists so that, even so, each of us is able to take the action needed to get something done, or to optimize for the team as a whole.
PRN-02
Keep Learning
The world keeps changing, and we ourselves are the ones bringing about that change. Amid this, it is essential that we, too, keep changing and adapting. As the philosopher Chiba Masaya put it, "to study is to destroy oneself," and as Yoro Takeshi said, "to know is to change oneself", this is an especially important guideline for living out "Work as Play." Recruit founder Ezoe Hiromasa once said, "Create your own opportunities, and change yourself." Considering all of this, what is asked of us first is to change ourselves.
PRN-03
Keep Building Products Worth Loving
Love is precious, but it also demands constant effort. We aim to transform the world through our products, and to stay honest with those products and the users behind them, we need to keep building, and keep delivering, products worth loving.
PRN-04
Maintain Transparency
Scrum's three pillars are "transparency, inspection, and adaptation." It all starts with transparency: making things visible drives kaizen, keeps the organization healthy, and reduces risk. That said, this does not mean every piece of information must always be open. Some things, such as HR information and personal privacy, clearly need to stay confidential. Information that is still in an early, unexamined stage and risks being misunderstood also needs to be handled carefully, though there may still be cases where we choose to share it openly, aware of that risk. What matters most is understanding that openness alone does not guarantee something is communicated correctly; sharing information requires being mindful of how the recipient will perceive it. While we recognize that most information is more effective when open, at minimum the people holding that information need to discuss among themselves how it should be handled. With that in mind, we must keep working to maintain transparency.
PRN-05
Team Over Individual
"If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together", an African proverb. Because we are pursuing a distant ideal, we act as a team. Being team-first means prioritizing the team's interests over any individual's.
PRN-06
100x Speed
Turning our philosophy into reality requires thinking far beyond a simple extension of the present; at times, we have to be dreamers. It is important to think backward from the question: what would it take to achieve something at 100x speed? A related idea is "conceive optimistically on a grand scale, plan pessimistically, and execute optimistically", one of the management philosophies of Inamori Kazuo, founder of Kyocera and DDI (now part of KDDI). While thinking as a dreamer at 100x speed, we still need to look carefully and calmly at both our company and the external environment as we shape that vision into an actual business, and consider our next moves with sufficient care. Even after making a plan to realize that dream, we will encounter many real-world obstacles along the way. To keep pushing forward without breaking in those moments, we need the mindset of a bricklayer: someone who keeps dreaming, yet works honestly and steadily, one brick at a time.
PRN-07
When in Doubt, Take the Challenge
Realizing our philosophy means overcoming many obstacles, and that requires questioning precedent and taking on new challenges. But taking a challenge sometimes means trusting intuition over reason, which is what makes it hard. Anything that is already obvious to everyone can never become the kind of innovation that changes the world, and it can never be achieved overnight. Sustaining challenges over the long term requires building a habit of challenging ourselves, and learning from the failures that follow is a nuance closely tied to the very meaning of the name "Anti-Pattern."
PRN-08
Never Do Anything You Could Not Face Heaven For
This guideline states our ethics in the simplest terms. Phrased in the negative, it holds us to the strongest possible standard. "Heaven" reflects a Japanese religious sensibility here, and readers may just as well substitute the word "family."
Business ConceptBUSINESS CONCEPT
Investing in software is investing in people.
INVESTING IN SOFTWARE IS INVESTING IN PEOPLE
Businesses that make software better generate revenue from customers and raise corporate value, producing funds. Those funds are invested back into software — that is, into people. Anti-Pattern supports this growth cycle from both sides: product building and organization building.
FIG-01 — GROWTH CYCLE
The software company growth cycle as Anti-Pattern sees it
CyclingCYCLING
Build better softwareBUILD BETTER SOFTWARE
SYS-01
Product Building
PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT
GROUP-01 — SUPPORT
BizDevOps Support
SVC-01SaaSus Platform
SVC-02SaaSus Consulting
SVC-03Deshima
Revenue & valuation
REVENUE / VALUATION
SYS-02
Financing
FINANCING
Investing in people
INVEST IN PEOPLE
SYS-03
Organization Building
BUILD AN ORGANIZATION
GROUP-02 — SUPPORT
Recruitment & Education Support
SVC-04POSSE
SVC-05CloudDriver
SVC-06engineed
Build better software, back to SYS-01
BUILD BETTER SOFTWARE — CYCLE REPEATS
No matter which component the cycle starts from, maximizing that component benefits the next, and the whole cycle keeps growing.
Service ListSERVICE LIST
Product Building - BizDevOps Support -GROUP-01
SVC-01
SaaSus Platform
SaaS to provide all the necessary functionalities for BtoB SaaS.
SERVICE SITE ↗
SVC-02
SaaSus Consulting
A service that comprehensively supports from organizational diagnosis to in-house execution.
SERVICE PAGE →
SVC-03
Deshima
Making it simpler to list your SaaS product on AWS Marketplace. We provide one-stop support, from step-by-step listing guidance to integration implementation.
SERVICE SITE ↗
Organization Building - Recruitment & Education Support -GROUP-02
SVC-04
POSSE
A community where university students with no programming experience learn together with their peers. We form a community that learns 'personal integrity' + 'programming' from university students and matures companions who enrich their lives together over the long term. This prepares them to be valuable assets upon graduation and immediate employment.
SERVICE SITE ↗
SVC-05
CloudDriver
A practical exam service that enables skill visualization and enhances proficiency for AWS engineers.
SERVICE SITE ↗
SVC-06
engineed
engineed is a scout service specializing in AWS engineers. You can hire AWS engineers with official qualifications in various contract forms such as part-time or full-time employment.
SERVICE SITE ↗
Work EnvironmentENVIRONMENT
Full Flextime
ENV-01 / FULL FLEX
Full Remote
ENV-02 / FULL REMOTE
Engineer-Background Management
ENV-03 / ENGINEER-LED
Remote HQ
ENV-04 / REMOTE HQ
Unipos
ENV-05 / UNIPOS
In-House Office Available
ENV-06 / OWN OFFICE
Recruiting FlowHIRING FLOW
* All interviews are conducted online.
STEP-01
Casual Interview
STEP-02
Confirm Intent to Apply
STEP-03
Interviews
(2-4 rounds)STEP-04
Offer
MESSAGE
Why not help build the future of Anti-Pattern with us,
and change the world software engineers live in, together?