I applied online. I interviewed at Rakuten in May 2016
Interview
super easy online coding test. (overlapping squares)
super easy interview with nearly no technical questions.
there were 3 interviewers in first interview and they seemed like not knowing much about technologies and mostly asked about previous job experiences.
such as what did you do? how did they work?
then there were a final interview with one person, who is top manager of dev department.
he just asked something like why rakuten? why japan? why change job?.. etc.
nothing was difficult at all.
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Rakuten (Tokio) in Mar 2019
Interview
I applied online and got invitation of an online codility test. Basically I finished it but the performance may not be very good. Still I passed and got next video online interview. They just asked me some experiences in my resume and why I want this position in Rakuten. It not long and I got next on-site interview. This is pretty similar to the video interview, just futher in some specific projects I did. If you are familiar and confident with what you contributed to several projects, then it is not difficult. Just explain yourself well. There is no coding questions till now. But I am going to take the next (may be final one) interview online again.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Explain the service structure of one of your project in detail. Use the whiteboard.
I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Rakuten (Singapur) in Jan 2019
Interview
Applied online - got one test to do - after test asked to come to their place for the face to face interview - there were three interviewers who seems to be from different places. One persons English was so hard to understand. They never check your certificates or transcripts
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Asked about previous experience and asked few questions which are not related to your skill set / technologies you know