Good Company for Some, Bad for Most. - Engineer Rakuten Employee Review

3.0
May 30, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

Good Company for Some, Bad for Most. Good Learning if you get a Good Team. Lot of new technologies to learn if you get the right team or Project.

Cons

Learning is limited to teams who work on those technologies. Quite a large percentage of selfish people. Japan work culture is mentally tiring. It affects your health too. Slog,Slog,Slog and still little appreciation, because the end Result was not 100% perfect. ( Should allow employee to make mistakes and learn from mistakes) Politics and favourism in Some Teams. Leave Policies are very Bad. Especially All the earned leaves will be Reset to 5. instead of being carried forward to next Year. Less or No Extra Curricular activities. The Remote Teams make almost all the decisions. The Managers and employees in India just follow what the remote teams dictates. Office is in Malleshwaram, which is like another planet for most people in I.T sector.

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5.0
Mar 25, 2026
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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
Jun 22, 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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