Challenging but co-workers are not skillful - SRE/DevOps Engineer Rakuten Employee Review

3.0
10 Nov 2024
Recommend
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Pros

Rakuten is a big company, there are many engineers and departments. You can transfer to your preferred position if you have the skill. (you need to take another interview when you ask internal transfer) There are many challenging tasks in every department every product, but it depends on your skill to get such challenging tasks.

Cons

Rakuten started RTO and many skillful engineers retired. Still, products are working but developers are quite unskilled. Even if they have trouble, they do not realize the root cause. root causes are almost not prepared for operation and testing. But they can not understand because they are not ....

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5.0
25 Mar 2026
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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.

1.0
6 Jul 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Free food, benefits are good

Cons

Pay was so bad. The management was awful.

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