Imagine working in Beirut - Software Engineer Rakuten Employee Review

1.0
Aug 22, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Food. Lots of food and some beer. Convenient to trains. Did I mention food? Oh, yes, and the food. Lot's of food, which is great because you can't find the time to go home.

Cons

Nepotism, cronyism, cold-blooded CTO with little talent and a huge ego, an HR Department that enables the maniacal CTO, not-so-bright-rich-kid CEO more obsessed with interior design than managing his CTO, noisy, and endless hours of boring work.

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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
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Flexible Hours, Benefits, Pay, lunch provided 3 days per week,

Cons

There were no cons while I was there

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