I applied through university. The process took 6 weeks. I interviewed at Rakuten (Hong Kong) in Nov 2016
Interview
Online programming test. if passed, you will be invited for an interview. I passed and I was invited. But didn't pass the interview. I didn't prepare for such technical questions
At the very beginning, you will be invited to a fairly easy code test. It consists of three questions. Something about array. If you are able to pass it, you will be invited to 2 rounds of onsite interviews, one technical and one behavioral.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Explain GC Make a quick service with following requirements
Contacted by Consultancy a round of skype discussion with that person.
They will explain you in detail then they give 1 hour test.
After that test cleared they forwarded my resume further and after some day one more 1 hour test.
After that is clear they scheduled my skype interview with company employee.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Their questions are
1)Which RDBMS you will choose for large dataset and why
2)Version controlling(Git command to ignore particular file.I mentioned .gitignore that he not considered)
3)Architecture
i)API
ii)Application
4)Automation of deployment
5)Caching
6)Redis vs memcache
7)How to switch from RDBMS to NoSQL and vice versa
etc.