Rakuten Software Developer reviews

3.5

71% would recommend to a friend

(473 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 473 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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473 reviews
3.0
Apr 11, 2026

Average company

Recommend
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Pros

Good office, location is good. Some departments like Rpay are good.

Cons

They support people who create an unprofessional environment, which speaks about how the higher management is. If you call out unprofessional behaviour, you'd better believe things will go down for you and not for the other person.

2.0
Mar 24, 2026

Not bad but not good either

Recommend
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Pros

Free food and certificates as well

Cons

SLDC process is too slow. Fixing small bug will take 1 to 3 months to push to production

2.0
Feb 26, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Solid job stability - decent wlb

Cons

pay not the best in the market, management tend to play politics

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