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      Rakuten reviews

      3.6

      71% would recommend to a friend

      (3,539 total reviews)
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      Hiroshi Mikitani

      78% approve of CEO

      56% positive business outlook

      Ratings by category

      3.9

      Diversity & inclusion

      3.9

      Work/Life balance

      3.6

      Culture & values

      3.4

      Career opportunities

      3.3

      Compensation and benefits

      3.0

      Senior management

      Rakuten has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 3,539 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Rakuten employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Tecnologías de la información industry (3.9 stars).

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      Reviews by job title

      4K reviews
      3.0
      Sep 26, 2014

      Salary is not so good

      Applications engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Rakuten is a big eCommerce company in Japan, so you have many chances to do different projects.

      Cons

      Though their official language is English, you have to study Japanese in order to communicate well.

      2.0
      Sep 16, 2014

      Lofty Ideals, Typical Japanese Corporation

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      - Diverse workforce - English used at work *only in certain divisions - Free breakfast and lunch - Constantly new company acquisitions, creating a semblance of a global company

      Cons

      - Treatment of foreign employees sub-par at best - Zero promotion opportunities at >5 year mark - Pay very low compared to similar companies in the US - Terrible work/life balance - Englishnization not enforced - Japanese corporate culture still alive - Vast majority of non-Japanese employees quit within two years

      4.0
      Sep 11, 2014

      Work Culture and Management

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Good work life balance. Not so much workload. Product Managers are good and comes with really good requirement.

      Cons

      Everyone is given director of engineering title in the engineering team, but they would do developer's work. At the same time they like to behave like directors and don't do work.

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