Not truly a product based company - Technical Lead Rakuten Employee Review

3.0
Nov 7, 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

1. Employee caring company 2. Job security 3. Give lot of good quality and useful goodies and merchandise.

Cons

1. Bad paymaster 2. Not a product based company , it is more like services based, since everything is driven from Japan. 3. It is not for the technically challenging people, they prefer bilingual engineers even though they may not be technically good. 4. Here only engineers with Java and full stack technology are valued. 5. Standup meetings are early in the morning at 7:30 am just because it is convenient from them since it is around 10am there. 6. If you want to learn technically and grow, then this is not the company for you, this is good for people who want to retire.

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5.0
Mar 25, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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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
CEO approval
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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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