Rakuten reviews

- Low salary - No flex time, everyone must start at 9:00 am sharp (and there is salary reduction for being late 15+ minutes) - 40 hours of included overwork (normal working hours are from 9:00 to 17:30m but arriving at 9:15 and leaving at 17:45 means you get deducted 15min worth of pay but do not get compensated for extra time you worked at the end of the day, unless your total overwork of the month exceeds 40 hours) - Paid amenities (gym, etc. are advertised as amenities but are actually not free) - Advertised to be 100% English speaking but a lot of teams still use Japanese - An hour-long company-wide morning meeting every week is a total waste of time. Information is irrelevant for the work of most people and many just sleep through it. - The bonus is fixed and decided based on rank. - Uses a lot of out of date technology. Not good for learning as an Engineer. - Very rigid, heiarchical management system. - High turnover rate. - Extremely prideful despite all the flaws.

-A sinking ship and declining business -Mostly just copying (with a long delay) other companies, and not innovating itself -Utilising the worse of both worlds: the east and the west. Trying to be so global company with a western mindset but mostly still a Japanese company on a daily basis -The core principles and values of the Group are not followed on a daily basis -Most important KPI: money -Extremely slow in advancing and improving services with many layers of approvals -Very risk-averse -Unbelievably low salary vs competitors and thus cannot attract real talent. -The Group is mostly run by 1 man who is feared by everybody -Often times, the message/vision doesn’t get through to middle layers of managers or the latter is just so worried with protecting the status quo. -A hierarchical environment where people in upper levels practice subtle arrogance and disbelief towards whatever people say in lower levels -People are given responsibilities but not freedom to make decisions -Many unwritten local culture business rules and people get promoted mostly based on seniority of how long staying with the company -Managers have no idea how to take care of people and solve team issues. -Almost impossible to change departments as majority of positions need Japanese skill and mostly consist of Japanese people -Too many layers of people -Low budgets and small inexperienced teams, even for important projects -People constantly make sarcastic jokes about the company -Tons of people in many meetings to make simple decisions -The Group has a lot of services, and thus occasionally has issues with focus and priorities -About 11-14 annual paid holidays -Has been historically referred to as a "black company" You have been warned… Go work elsewhere. If you put lipstick on a pig, it’s still a pig.