Good atmosphere - Software Engineer Rakuten Employee Review

5.0
Feb 16, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

People are nice in general. The office is clean and the lunch will be provided when you're in the office. Work-life balance is good (unless you have to urgently support production issues)

Cons

The speed of development projects are slow. Since the company is big, they are less tolerant to mistakes and you will need to plan very well before execution. Managers are also scared of making mistakes.

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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 11, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

remote work, great benefits, executive communication

Cons

hard to get movement or pay raises. annual raises are lucky to be 3%

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