Avoid!!! - Lead Engineer Rakuten Employee Review

2.0
Mar 2, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

- Many opportunities (depends on business) - Free breakfast, lunch and dinner

Cons

- Promote English as Official language but intra systems, and most daily works are still in Japanese. - HR department is the worst. Liar, not professional, takes no responsibility for any mistake they did. - Too many unusable middle class managers, who have no place to go and just enjoy doing nothing and taking credit from other people's work. - Company treats people Business Unit a lot better than Development Unit.

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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
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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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