Does Rakuten pay their employees well?

According to anonymously submitted Glassdoor reviews, Rakuten employees rate their compensation and benefits as 3.3 out of 5. Find out more about salaries and benefits at Rakuten. This rating has been stable over the past 12 months.

How satisfied are employees working at Rakuten?

71% of Rakuten employees would recommend working there to a friend based on Glassdoor reviews . Employees also rated Rakuten 3.8 out of 5 for work life balance, 3.6 for culture and values and 3.4 for career opportunities.

What are the top reviewed jobs at Rakuten?

Software Engineer (472) , Senior Software Engineer (176) , Applications Engineer (128) , Product Manager (94) , Project Manager (80) , Data Scientist (62) , Manager (59) , Associate Software Engineer (51) , Account Manager (45) , Software Developer (39) , Technical Intern (33) , Intern (29) , Systems Engineer (29) , Devops Engineer (27) , Internship (26)

What are the pros of working at Rakuten according to real employee reviews?

"Also good work life balance because products are not profitable which leads to no major development work." ((in 258 reviews)); "Nothing much great to mention here apart from free food and few free biscuits in pantry." ((in 205 reviews)); "Nice people to work with" ((in 182 reviews)); "Good benefits including some paid lunches each week and you cant forget the In" ((in 123 reviews)); "Free meals and snacks" ((in 108 reviews))

What are the cons of working at Rakuten according to real employee reviews?

"1. Salary is low for fresh graduate (I heard that the salary of mid" ((in 294 reviews)); "Management is bad and HRs are not friendly." ((in 193 reviews)); "Sometimes managers have no technical knowledge or hands on experience making technical decisions and those projects are promised to fail or become a nightmare." ((in 132 reviews)); "Leadership is weak and only knows how to emulate their Japanese counterpart which doesn't seem to work in the US." ((in 45 reviews)); "Bad upper management." ((in 36 reviews))

What are employees saying about Rakuten layoffs in 2026?

Explore Glassdoor’s employee reviews to understand what current and former employees are saying about Rakuten layoffs and their outlook for job security at Rakuten in 2026.

Rakuten reviews

3.6

71% would recommend to a friend

(3,543 total reviews)

Hiroshi Mikitani

77% approve of CEO

56% positive business outlook

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Rakuten has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 3,543 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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4K reviews

3.0

Apr 25, 2025

Applications Engineer

Applications engineer

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

You learn Depending on your team is nice

Cons

Japanese environment 4 days RTO

4.0

Apr 25, 2025

Good place to work

Senior member of technical staff

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

1)Great Technology to work on 2)Excellent lab and faculty 3)Good pay

Cons

1)Management misalignment 2)Lack of interpersonal activities

5.0

Apr 24, 2025

People first organisation

Software engineer ii

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Great environment. Very chilled. Lot of challenges. Indian Management is not unfair and listens to you if you have a genuine problem. A good product company , awesome office good facilities. Very transparent. India management shields india employees like anything from Japan management. Never had a layoff situation during my tenure, rather they moved employees to different projects.

Cons

Sometimes I felt like japan team gets better project and products than India teams. Also i felt like India teams are more strictly monitored by the japan management than the japan teams.

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