Amazing company and management! - Software Developer Rakuten Kobo Employee Review

4.0
Jan 5, 2022
Recommend
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Pros

Management's decision to move work remotely weeks ahead of any company early on in the pandemic speaks volume of the kind of leaders they have. Employees are well taken care of. competitive pay and benefits Wide range of benefits Flexible work hours Management listens and take actions when it comes to concerns from employees. Quite rare to have this trait in my experience. Talented people Professional HR that even after I left, they still responded and helped with my problems extremely quickly.

Cons

Just like any other company there are a couple of issues. Work load had been immensely unsustainable. Can't hire enough "qualified" people, while there's a lot of ambition on the product side.

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5.0
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3.0
Jan 28, 2025
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Pros

Free ebook every week, good benefits, free lunch every day if you’re in the office.

Cons

Extremely siloed to the point where people in the same team don’t even communicate. A lot of people that are hired are not fit for the role they are hired for. A lot of favortism, same people getting recognition over and over again even for mediocre work. They try to sell this image of being a friendly brand/company to work for but there is a good amount of hostility, cliques and politics within the org that make it difficult to navigate. Pay is not competitive.

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