Rakuten Senior Software Engineer reviews

3.6

60% would recommend to a friend

(185 total reviews)
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Hiroshi Mikitani

76% approve of CEO

59% positive business outlook

Software Engineer/Senior Software Engineer employees have rated Rakuten with 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 185 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Software Engineer/Senior Software Engineer professionals have a good working experience there. Rakuten is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Software Engineer/Senior Software Engineer professionals compared to other employers within the Tecnologías de la información industry (3.9 stars).

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185 reviews
1.0
Feb 24, 2024

Poor Management

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Pros

Health benefits, free lunch and fruits

Cons

* Inexperienced managers promoted to general manager role who do not even know how to manage teams. * Lots of commotion and skirmishes creating toxic work place. * No clear goal and roadmap. * No vision what will be the project looks like in next 2 to 5 years. * Managers hell bent on holding control. * All projects are approved from Japan and have to work with Japan teams in night shifts without Overtime. * 3 Day office policy is killing work life balance. * No hires in USA office. * Spending time and money on unnecessary projects which no one uses after 6 months. * Poor quality services. * Lack of talent. * Senior engineers are blocked from building novel projects. * Management is too novice and afraid of changes. * Highly toxic work place. * Have to work with Japan team

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