Junior Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Rakuten with 3.3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 67% positive. To compare, the company-average is 44.5% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Junior Engineer roles take an average of 21 days to get hired, when considering 3 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Rakuten overall takes an average of 35 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Rakuten as a Junior Engineer according to 3 Glassdoor interviews include:
Background check: 17%
Phone interview: 17%
Drug test: 17%
One on one interview: 17%
Skills test: 17%
Presentation: 17%
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I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Rakuten (Tokyo) in Oct 2022
Interview
There are four stages in the interview process. Codility test and technical interview are done simultaneously, so the deadline of codility test is 2 days before the interview. I applied on the website. 1. CV Screening 2. HR interview 3. Codility test 4. Technical interview
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
HR interview : 1. Why do you choose Rakuten mobile? 2. Why do yo apply for this position? 3. (Note:junior engineer is comprised of different positions such as data scientist, etc) If you're accepted, but you're assigned in different position that you aren't expected, do you still want to accept this offer? 4. Can you speak Japanese?
I applied online. I interviewed at Rakuten (Tokyo)
Interview
There are 3 rounds interview and 1 coding test, I got notification that the position reaches the head counts after I passed my 2nd interview. It was so weird for me.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
First about experience and profile, 2nd about technical questions
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Rakuten (Tokyo) in Aug 2021
Interview
I did Several times of interviews including coding tests. In the first interview, we are talking about the background and describing why we want to work at this place. After that, we were given the coding test. The test was quite difficult. However, the interviewer was very nice.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What technology did you use when you are studying at your university? explain in detail.