Is Rakuten a good company to work for as a Senior Software Engineer?

Senior Software Engineer professionals working at Rakuten have rated their employer with 3.6 out of 5 stars in 185 Glassdoor reviews. This is an average score with the overall rating of Rakuten employees being 3.6 out of 5 stars. Search open Senior Software Engineer Jobs at Rakuten now and start preparing for your job interview by browsing frequently asked Senior Software Engineer interview questions at Rakuten .

Does Rakuten pay Senior Software Engineer employees well?

Senior Software Engineer professionals rate their compensation and benefits at Rakuten with 3.4 out of 5 stars based on 185 anonymously submitted employee reviews. This is 3% better than the company average rating for salary and benefits. Find out more about Senior Software Engineer salaries at Rakuten.

How happy are Senior Software Engineer professionals working at Rakuten?

60% of Senior Software Engineer employees at Rakuten would recommend their employer to a friend. This rating has increased by 14% in the past 12 months. Senior Software Engineer professionals have also rated Rakuten with a 4.1 rating for work-life-balance, 4.1 rating for diversity and inclusion, 3.9 rating for culture and values and 3.6 rating 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 254 reviews)); "Good and free food." ((in 198 reviews)); "Nice people to work with" ((in 178 reviews)); "Good benefits including some paid lunches each week and you cant forget the In" ((in 123 reviews)); "Free meals and snacks" ((in 102 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 286 reviews)); "Management is bad and HRs are not friendly." ((in 194 reviews)); "Some groups have very high attrition for senior managers due to lack of clarity of role." ((in 136 reviews)); "Leadership is weak and only knows how to emulate their Japanese counterpart which doesn't seem to work in the US." ((in 40 reviews)); "Bad upper management." ((in 35 reviews))

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Rakuten Senior Software Engineer reviews

3.6

60% would recommend to a friend

(185 total reviews)

Hiroshi Mikitani

76% approve of CEO

59% positive business outlook

Ratings by category

4.1

Diversity & inclusion

4.1

Work/Life balance

3.9

Culture & values

3.6

Career opportunities

3.4

Compensation and benefits

3.3

Senior management

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

2.0

May 12, 2023

Broken platforms and now broken culture

Senior software engineer

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Fair pay, interesting issues to work on

Cons

New ex-Silicon Valley top managers are destroying the company culture with their rudeness, unnecessary stress and pressure, used to be a cool place to be despite broken internal tools and very absent management, lots of bottom-up efforts from willing employees driving the business to success, now only stressed out folks who can't execute because of broken tools and random deadlines with people shouting at them

2.0

May 11, 2023

MNC with startup culture

Senior software engineer

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Activities, food, office, benefits, work space

Cons

Work pressure, no empathy, very much money centric, non achievable deadlines

2.0

May 8, 2023

Avoid - This is your red flag!

Senior software engineer

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

- Big MNC Stability - Decent salary & perks

Cons

- Japanese culture expects you to work like a humanoid robot. From requirement gathering to story creation to R&D and actual development to testing to DevOps and infra setup to UAT and go-live you are the sole owner/product manager/engineer of their products. - No team structure, no help.. if you're stuck, you're on your own. Managers are jacks of all trades and master of none (let alone tech) :) - They treat you like school children with strict timing, timesheet culture and expect you to attend weekly all-hands or else mail gets triggered to HR. IDK how to react to that #lmao

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