Rakuten Reviews

Pros

There are many exiciting opportunities. Company is growing rapidly, and one of strong leader of internet service industory globally. CEO has strong leadership and clear vision.

Cons

There are many people who really loves to work hard, so the average working time may be longer than other companies.

Advice to Senior Management

Recommend to have less meetings, and more convesation with your employees. Shift your balance from achieving target activity to understanding what's going on a little bit more.

Pros

It's widely known brand in Japan.

Cons

Work and life is unbalanced.

Advice to Senior Management

Expect the company to promote more engineers to build a engineer-driven culture.

Pros

If you share the company philosophy, empowerment, it must be a very good place to work for. Lots of opportunities to challenge yourself under good pressure. Many young people. Now trying to expand its business worldwide. Promoting English inside the company; getting more and more like a global company.

Cons

Compared to firms in the U.S. the pay is not so great. There are no programs to support employees study abroad.

Advice to Senior Management

Leadership of the management is very strong at Rakuten. The only worry is if there would be a proper way for new graduates to promote to management; so far, only mid-career personnel has been working as management.

Pros

Business is so strong in Japanese e-commerce market and there are tons of work to do, and this is good experiece as a engineer.

Cons

Our company is quite depends on CEO MIkitani's top-down deceision, and senior manager cannot be good media between CEO and employee.

Advice to Senior Management

Hear the voice much from employee.

Pros

It is the good place to learn the e-commerce business model at the company who have been operating most successful e-commerce business in Japan and developed very unique model in the world. Also, since the company is still young, only 10 years from the launch, you can take responsibility of your business area or management roll at relatively younger age, so that you would get the management experience which can be used for your future career. The pay level is not so bad, although the benefit package is minimum. For small favor, you can get free breakfast and lunch everyday.

Cons

Since the top management is very strong, middle management is weak.

Advice to Senior Management

Not only to the empowerment to society in general, but also the empoerment within the company is needed now.