Large and Innovative E-commerce Focused Business - Senior Software Engineer Rakuten Employee Review

3.0
9 Dec 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Awesome people and awesome projects abound! Very diverse workplace, constantly meeting people from all over the world. Large scale, global applications. Tons of opportunity for development and advancement at all levels. Good utilization of modern technologies across multiple stacks. Nice office space. Great job security.

Cons

Very bureaucratic, hierarchical, risk adverse and functionally siloed organization can often mean many meetings and dealing with significant amounts of overhead at times. Lack of commitment and effort towards quality software practices, shortcuts for temporary speed is the norm.

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5.0
25 Mar 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Rakuten Rewards has great life balance. Too bad the economy was getting rocked.

Cons

Don't really have any cons. I understand that the market's been hard so had to downsize the force, so that was kinda challenging. Hopefully AI will increase everyone's output.

4.0
22 Jun 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Flexible Hours, Benefits, Pay, lunch provided 3 days per week,

Cons

There were no cons while I was there

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