The "We've Always Done it That Way" Company - Software Engineer Rakuten Employee Review

2.0
Oct 6, 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Cafeteria (free breakfast / lunch / dinner). Some teams are good.

Cons

Asakai (early morning meeting, 1 hour, once a week). Managers get promoted for being stupid. Some Japanese people simply refuse to learn English.

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5.0
Mar 25, 2026
Recommend
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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
Recommend
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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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