Works like an engineering-driven service company with inhuman practices - Product Manager Rakuten Employee Review

2.0
Mar 2, 2021
Recommend
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Pros

1. Standard enterprise behavior. 2. Get paid on time, get adequate leaves

Cons

1. No real innovation - works as an outsourced dev shop 2. Too much bureaucracy and internal politics. 3. HR is highly incompetent 4. Too much brittleness in procedures. Lack of young blood from tier-1 institutes shows its effects. 5. Too less pay and very low work life balance.

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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.

1.0
Jul 6, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Free food, benefits are good

Cons

Pay was so bad. The management was awful.

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