Pros
- Good for Japanese who want to work on global projects in some departments - Free lunch - CEO's strong leadership - A lot of opportunity to work on various types of businesses if you want to do - Job security. Even though your performance is not good, you will not be fired if you are working in Japan. - Strong brand awareness in Japan. When you get something property, you will see how strong Rakuten credit is in Japan.
Cons
- Looks like weird culture for foreign people - In some of the departments of Rakuten Japan, they are still using Japanese as the primary language. If foreign people are in the departments, they will see the problem of communication with Japanese staff even though they try to communicate with the foreign people in English. - Not good compensation system compared with other foreign tech companies. But please note that you will get the strong job security in Japan. Rakuten's compensation system is not competitive for tech-people compared with Western companies but I also think that is common in Japanese companies. You can see the same case in other industries in Japan. The problem Rakuten will have may be how Rakuten provides the compensation to talents to keep them.