Work-life balance is fine, but management is unstable - Senior Software Engineer Rakuten Employee Review

3.0
May 18, 2026
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Pros

Work life balance is ok

Cons

Salary is less than industry and management is very unstable. Now rules become very bad. Compulsory to be in office by 9am and leave after 5pm. Its service based company to Japan Rakuten

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5.0
Mar 25, 2026
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Pros

Rakuten Rewards has great life balance. Too bad the economy was getting rocked.

Cons

Don't really have any cons. I understand that the market's been hard so had to downsize the force, so that was kinda challenging. Hopefully AI will increase everyone's output.

4.0
Jun 11, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

remote work, great benefits, executive communication

Cons

hard to get movement or pay raises. annual raises are lucky to be 3%

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