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      Rakuten

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      Rakuten reviews

      3.6

      71% would recommend to a friend

      (3,534 total reviews)
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      Hiroshi Mikitani

      78% 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 3,534 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
      1.0
      Jun 19, 2017

      overhyped with zero trade

      Php developer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      free lunch flexible hours ambience work location brand name primary location

      Cons

      shortterm projects no proper planings.. biased management

      3.0
      May 30, 2017

      Good Company for Some, Bad for Most.

      Engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Good Company for Some, Bad for Most. Good Learning if you get a Good Team. Lot of new technologies to learn if you get the right team or Project.

      Cons

      Learning is limited to teams who work on those technologies. Quite a large percentage of selfish people. Japan work culture is mentally tiring. It affects your health too. Slog,Slog,Slog and still little appreciation, because the end Result was not 100% perfect. ( Should allow employee to make mistakes and learn from mistakes) Politics and favourism in Some Teams. Leave Policies are very Bad. Especially All the earned leaves will be Reset to 5. instead of being carried forward to next Year. Less or No Extra Curricular activities. The Remote Teams make almost all the decisions. The Managers and employees in India just follow what the remote teams dictates. Office is in Malleshwaram, which is like another planet for most people in I.T sector.

      2.0
      Nov 5, 2014

      Not an international internet company -- a domestic advertising company with a big website

      Web developer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      ~free lunch ~interesting international community, with an increasing number of foreign hires from many backgrounds ~opportunities to interact with many aspects of a large corporation

      Cons

      ~Englishnization is not real. Most domestic businesses are Japanese only. ~Power harassment, sexual harassment are common. Not addressed by HR. ~Extremely dense political climate - promotions and projects are decided much more by personal connections than by merit. Decision making is extremely top-down ~All KPIs are based on instant gratification metrics without concern for sustainable growth. Anything not related to ad sales and immediate revenue is ignored. (Working in a technical position unrelated to ad sales meant little chance to be noticed or evaluated fairly)

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