Rakuten Senior Software Engineer reviews

3.6

60% would recommend to a friend

(184 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 184 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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184 reviews
3.0
Nov 3, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

- One of the few companies available for non Japanese speakers. (However, be prepared to learn if you intend to progress career wise. Lots of groups still use Japanese to communicate) - Free lunch, breakfast and dinner - Great diversity (Though, depending on service and departments. ) - Chance to work with some very talented people. Met couple of super talented people but were under valued by the managers. - Good learning experience work wise and technology wise. (However, some groups are still stuck to 90s tech)

Cons

- very slow career development and salary raise - low salary in comparison to similar companies - very slow internal procedures, getting approvals. lots of internal task are very manual, like submit manual printed papers and so on. - managers are very Number oriented not daring to slightest of risks, very uptight - overtime work in many groups - some conservative ways and policies. (once every employee were made to sign a hand-written pledge letter saying we will always wear our name batch tag on the left side of our chest because its our only uniform. The move directed from the CEO himself)

1.0
Sep 20, 2016

Micro Management

Recommend
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Pros

Breakfast or lunch daily Free coffee/tea Evening Snacks Work and life balance

Cons

- Attendance register to track login & logout, WFH & leaves - Can't carry laptop for first 10 days as no trust on the new joined - Very small pantry in 29 floor is challenging at times - All items are bought through same vendor shows highly manipulated system from Prolim & senior management - Construction quality of the RIDOC is poor however the same vendor got the 2nd and 3rd order too

4.0
Aug 16, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

(1) Strong Business and Technology Vision. Throttle is on all the time! (2) Supreme Quality Focus. (3) Passionate people. (4) Good sharing of information across teams. (5) Attention to detail at engineering, documentation and processes. (6) Great work culture driving individuality, responsibility and accountability.

Cons

(1) Highly cost conscious. (2) Employee benefits can get better. (3) Not quite global compared to other product companies in Bangalore. All other centres try and emulate Tokyo which is not possible.

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