Good for beginner (new grads), not good for long term career - Data Engineer Rakuten Employee Review

4.0
Jun 23, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Free food, Good office environment, international

Cons

Ridiculous performance review period. It was said to be once every 6 months but in fact, if you are in the Japanese team / group, every 3 months they want to review your performance verbally, and every week, they will set the 1on1 meeting with manager to spend a bit time in checking the goal performance. In the end, performance is not objective but subjective to the manager

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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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