I applied through a staffing agency. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Rakuten (Tóquio) in Apr 2025
Interview
Got approach by headhunter, got the invitation to attend live coding interview after resume screening by Rakuten. The live coding interview not using some leetcode style. There were 2 peoples.
I applied through a staffing agency. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Rakuten (Pequim, Pequim) in May 2025
Interview
Get reached out by headhunter, 5 rounds of interview in total, 3 technical rounds and 2 bq rounds with cross-sites interviewers and CTO.
The whole interviewing process is okay-ish, but somehow I get threatened by the headhunter in the final step.
Headhunter said something like the offer is in progrss already, but if u can't promise to take the offer and onboard to rakuten, I will decline the offer instead of u directly, even though at this stage both the salary and job rank are not disclosed - at all. That's very shocking : )
I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Rakuten (Tóquio) in May 2025
Interview
Asked me a leetcode medium. Didn't get much farther than that. They explained what the team did and gave me 5 minutes for questions. It was an hour long in total