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      Japanese company - Software Engineer Rakuten Employee Review

      3.0
      Dec 19, 2014
      Software engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business outlook

      Pros

      - free lunch - many opportunities for woking abroad - largest e-commerce site in Japan where you can try many technical challenges such as distributed computing etc

      Cons

      - language barrier between Japanese and non-Japanese - different pov between Asian and Western - vague evaluation metrics

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      5.0
      Mar 25, 2026
      Senior designer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business outlook

      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
      Lead facilities coordinator
      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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