I applied online. I interviewed at Rakuten (San Mateo, CA)
Interview
It was supposed to be a 5 hour with 5 different individuals.
It was really very bad experience as my interview was stopped in between as I asked more details to understand the technical question been put on board by the first interviewer
This is very bad experience I encountered in my 20 year being in this field.
I felt there is no alignment between team lead who selected me for in person interview and the team mate who interviewed me first during in person.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Some string manipulation which I was trying to understand.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Rakuten (Bengaluru) in Jan 2022
Interview
I cleared the first round that went well, in the 2nd round the panel was having no professional ethics
He didn't appreciate the questions i answered but started giggling on the things that i was not able to answer, first time I ignored, 2nd time i asked him if there is a problem, and he said you have mentioned hibernate in your resume and you are not able to answer, So i encountered him saying do you know everything and then he said its not like that your overall interview is going good,
Same was reported to HR and then HR talked with panel and told that , he was not laughing on you , he got some feed on social media. Can we still go through next rounds
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How to create dead lock in multi threading
static keyword with multithreading
Hibernate composite key
Hibernate laptop , student many to many , how you will add days left for laptop and where
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Rakuten (Bengaluru) in Oct 2021
Interview
The recruiter was very unprofessional to start with.
The interviewers seemed like they wanted to prove they knew everything than actually trying to hire/evaluate the candidate. I was on the verge of giving them a piece of my mind.
Speaks volumes about their culture.