No growth, move slow and very bad management - Senior Software Engineer Rakuten Employee Review

1.0
30 May 2018
Recommend
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Pros

food and office is very nice.

Cons

A senior VP will micro manage a software engineer and get him fired regardless of his performance and endorses from managers/team lead. Everything goes super slow, develop -> test ->deploy would take up to half year , and the reason is just to be "safe"

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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
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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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