Is Rakuten a good company to work for as a Senior Software Engineer?

Senior Software Engineer professionals working at Rakuten have rated their employer with 3.6 out of 5 stars in 185 Glassdoor reviews. This is an average score with the overall rating of Rakuten employees being 3.6 out of 5 stars. Search open Senior Software Engineer Jobs at Rakuten now and start preparing for your job interview by browsing frequently asked Senior Software Engineer interview questions at Rakuten .

Does Rakuten pay Senior Software Engineer employees well?

Senior Software Engineer professionals rate their compensation and benefits at Rakuten with 3.4 out of 5 stars based on 185 anonymously submitted employee reviews. This is 3% better than the company average rating for salary and benefits. Find out more about Senior Software Engineer salaries at Rakuten.

How happy are Senior Software Engineer professionals working at Rakuten?

60% of Senior Software Engineer employees at Rakuten would recommend their employer to a friend. This rating has increased by 14% in the past 12 months. Senior Software Engineer professionals have also rated Rakuten with a 4.1 rating for work-life-balance, 4.1 rating for diversity and inclusion, 3.9 rating for culture and values and 3.6 rating for career opportunities.

What are the top reviewed jobs at Rakuten?

Software Engineer (472) , Senior Software Engineer (176) , Applications Engineer (128) , Product Manager (94) , Project Manager (80) , Data Scientist (62) , Manager (59) , Associate Software Engineer (51) , Account Manager (45) , Software Developer (39) , Technical Intern (33) , Intern (29) , Systems Engineer (29) , Devops Engineer (27) , Internship (26)

What are the pros of working at Rakuten according to real employee reviews?

"Also good work life balance because products are not profitable which leads to no major development work." ((in 258 reviews)); "Nothing much great to mention here apart from free food and few free biscuits in pantry." ((in 205 reviews)); "Nice people to work with" ((in 182 reviews)); "Good benefits including some paid lunches each week and you cant forget the In" ((in 123 reviews)); "Free meals and snacks" ((in 108 reviews))

What are the cons of working at Rakuten according to real employee reviews?

"1. Salary is low for fresh graduate (I heard that the salary of mid" ((in 294 reviews)); "Management is bad and HRs are not friendly." ((in 193 reviews)); "Sometimes managers have no technical knowledge or hands on experience making technical decisions and those projects are promised to fail or become a nightmare." ((in 132 reviews)); "Leadership is weak and only knows how to emulate their Japanese counterpart which doesn't seem to work in the US." ((in 45 reviews)); "Bad upper management." ((in 36 reviews))

Rakuten Senior Software Engineer reviews

3.6

60% would recommend to a friend

(185 total reviews)

Hiroshi Mikitani

76% approve of CEO

59% positive business outlook

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Software Engineer/Senior Software Engineer employees have rated Rakuten with 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 185 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Software Engineer/Senior Software Engineer professionals have a good working experience there. Rakuten is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Software Engineer/Senior Software Engineer professionals compared to other employers within the Tecnologia da informação industry (3.9 stars).

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185 reviews

3.0

Nov 9, 2016

A global company lacking a global attitude

Senior software developer

Recommend

Business Outlook

Pros

Some good projects are available to try new/different technologies - if you can get on them.

Cons

Their global view is limited, too much effort is spent on applying Japanese values on Western culture.

3.0

Nov 3, 2016

Mixture of good and bad

Senior software engineer

Recommend

Business Outlook

Pros

- One of the few companies available for non Japanese speakers. (However, be prepared to learn if you intend to progress career wise. Lots of groups still use Japanese to communicate) - Free lunch, breakfast and dinner - Great diversity (Though, depending on service and departments. ) - Chance to work with some very talented people. Met couple of super talented people but were under valued by the managers. - Good learning experience work wise and technology wise. (However, some groups are still stuck to 90s tech)

Cons

- very slow career development and salary raise - low salary in comparison to similar companies - very slow internal procedures, getting approvals. lots of internal task are very manual, like submit manual printed papers and so on. - managers are very Number oriented not daring to slightest of risks, very uptight - overtime work in many groups - some conservative ways and policies. (once every employee were made to sign a hand-written pledge letter saying we will always wear our name batch tag on the left side of our chest because its our only uniform. The move directed from the CEO himself)

1.0

Sep 20, 2016

Micro Management

Senior software engineer

Recommend

Business Outlook

Pros

Breakfast or lunch daily Free coffee/tea Evening Snacks Work and life balance

Cons

- Attendance register to track login & logout, WFH & leaves - Can't carry laptop for first 10 days as no trust on the new joined - Very small pantry in 29 floor is challenging at times - All items are bought through same vendor shows highly manipulated system from Prolim & senior management - Construction quality of the RIDOC is poor however the same vendor got the 2nd and 3rd order too

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