A Nice Japanese Global Company - Associate Application Engineer Rakuten Employee Review

4.0
Apr 21, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

1. Work Life Balance 2. Most of the colleagues are nice people 3. Support 100% work in English 4. Free meals 5. Colleagues are really from different countries.

Cons

1. Pay is relatively low in tech industry, 2. Pay increment is slow. 3. Lack of colleague communication outside of work. 4. Turn over rate is quite high. 5. On-Call.

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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.

1.0
Jul 6, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Free food, benefits are good

Cons

Pay was so bad. The management was awful.

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