Great meals and work-life balance, but limited WFH days - UI/UIX Designer Rakuten Employee Review

4.0
1 July 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

-Free meals (tasty and healthy, 6 options for each cafeteria) -7.5 work hours a day -Almost no overtime -Fun club activities -Nice people from all over the world -Good mixture of challenging work & work life balance -1 year parental leave

Cons

-Weekly early morning meetings from 8am -Only 1 work-from-home day a week -Not enough paid leaves (The first year: 10 days + 3 summer days off)

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5.0
25 Mar 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
22 June 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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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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