Good start but now going down slide in new management - Senior Software Engineer Rakuten Employee Review

2.0
Jun 1, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

japanese teams are highly cooperative very process oriented open culture in both bangalore and japan teams got to learn lots of new technologies being in the development team. my team lead was very good on mobile technology stack

Cons

all of top management is new here lacks ethics and integrity my manager told me they are forcing ppl to write good reviews online. for every _ve review you will see 3-4 +ve reviews that are coming. no long term thinking. hire ppl and then think where to make them work much of new staff is pulling in from new management's older companies due to lay offs or company closure

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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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