Terrible Workplace & Unethical Management - Software Engineer Rakuten Employee Review

1.0
Feb 25, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

Meals 3 times a day, flexibility at work.

Cons

- You are forced to sell Rakuten mobile contract even though your job title is totally unrelated. If you don`t sell, then you get threatened to receive no bonus and resign from the company. - Managers and executives are unethical and keep asking you to sell contracts to your friends and family (even though the network quality is bad). - You get hassled everyday via emails, messages via teams or viber and manager meetings to sell mobile contracts. - List of people who didn`t sell any mobile contracts are send out to a wide range of employees to shame you. - Throughout the pandemic Mikitanki has been harassing unvaccinated people and called them irresponsible in company meetings. - Rakuten is a represents woke/ extreme liberal ideologies. - Managers and executive are just yes-man who do whatever Mikitani says.

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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
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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