Don't join, it's HORRIBLE - Software Engineer Rakuten Employee Review

1.0
Dec 16, 2020
Recommend
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Pros

Free lunch during Corona wave?

Cons

CEO wants employees come to office right in Corona-3rd-wave, and he claims to keep "employee health as top priority". That office has confirmed cases all the time. There is a serious internal culture of bragging, shopping site is horrible and a user can't even add item to cart during peak; mobile-business is in chaos and treat customer like joke, yet there is an internal RNN (inside-propaganda) being "proud" all the time. Benefits are a joke. Employee-stock-options gets you a few thousand yen of profit in a year if you sell right after buy every month and if you are lucky.

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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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