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
4.0
Jul 25, 2025

Pros and Cons

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Food Good Product Learning opportunities

Cons

Japan centric low trust on indians (due to poor quality of work obviously)

3.0
Jul 10, 2025

Boring

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Good work life balance, decent culture, kind employees

Cons

Company isn't growing, tech stack is not super current, feel like I've already built the same features multiple times now instead of truly innovating

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Rakuten Response
10mo
Thank you for sharing your feedback about your experience with Rakuteb in San Mateo. We’re glad to hear you appreciate the good work-life balance, positive culture, and people you work with. We are always working to improve our products and processes, and we encourage our engineers to share their ideas for new features and technologies. If you have suggestions or would like to explore new challenges, please speak with your manager or HR Business Partner. They will be happy to discuss ways to support your professional growth and help you find more opportunities to innovate. Thank you again for your feedback and for your contributions to Rakuten.
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