Mentally breaking - Software Engineer Rakuten Employee Review

1.0
Aug 21, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

Free lunch There is nothing more.

Cons

- Managers that don't know what they are doing. - Managers put the blame on others when they mess up - "Rakuten management style" (this is what you do if you don't know what you are doing, people working there even uses it) - No structured processes is used like +agile, scrum or XP - little to no code documentation. - No architectual design/design pattern when needed. - a lot of code has not been updated since 2000 - they hire guys to do "recovery" rather than fixing issues (this is what most people do)

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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 22, 2026
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Pros

Flexible Hours, Benefits, Pay, lunch provided 3 days per week,

Cons

There were no cons while I was there

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