Rakuten Software Developer reviews

3.5

71% would recommend to a friend

(474 total reviews)
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Hiroshi Mikitani

68% approve of CEO

42% positive business outlook

Software Developer Engineer employees have rated Rakuten with 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 474 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Software Developer Engineer professionals have a good working experience there. Rakuten is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Software Developer Engineer professionals compared to other employers within the Tecnologías de la información industry (3.9 stars).

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474 reviews
3.0
Jul 8, 2012
Recommend
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Pros

This used to be such a great company to work at with interesting projects in development and IT managers which are helpful and supportative. I still really like my job here though not as much as I used to before the downturn. Retail has become a difficult sector in general but online is the only place to be in retail so if this company can succeed with their goals it might really take off and become huge.

Cons

The company was bought by a Japanese conglomerate, most all perks have disappeared and everyone is now working at long open tables which is totally distracting. The pressure is on to do more with less. Not too sure if new remote control management from Japan is capable of measuring up to the task they've been assigned. They want to grow our company into the equivalent of Amazon... which while a nice goal is going to be harder than hard. We'll see what happens.

4.0
Oct 24, 2011
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Flexible schedule Happy place Friendly people Learn fast Team work

Cons

Wish more vacation days Or have more sick days

4.0
Sep 13, 2011
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Very friendly company Monthly events to improve teamwork and interaction Flexible hours Great benefits package Great leadership from management

Cons

Geared towards internet technology, but we do cover a range of programming/scripting languages

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