Rakuten Senior Software Engineer reviews

3.6

60% would recommend to a friend

(185 total reviews)
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Hiroshi Mikitani

76% approve of CEO

59% positive business outlook

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
1.0
Dec 12, 2014
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

Great benefits and work life balance. Employees are all generally friendly. Quiet work environment, pretty building. Free food and drinks and a (VERY) good culture (except for tech sadly).

Cons

Almost all of the tech management is egocentric. Tasks given are short, specific, and rare. Ideas are 'desired' but the end result is they are all ignored. Making a real impact on the business is near impossible. There is no test environment or any notion of QA. Business decisions are made without customer facing employees around. Sitting at your desk is important, but having work to do is not. If you are looking for a challenge, fast paced environment, or a place where outsider opinion is valued I would suggest moving on.

1.0
Jul 16, 2013
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

Opportunity to learn new technologies, but they seem to be gambling too much by only using newer technologies. NoSQL + Node.js + Buzzword bull. They seem to be more concerned with buzzword compliance that using proven technologies.

Cons

They claim to have more than 20 million subscribers, but with their platforms being essentially legal adware/spyware tools, most of the subscribers are not acquired voluntarily. One assumes most of Freecause.com’s subscribers don’t even acknowledge what Freecause is, who their clients and sponsors are, or that they are individually subscribed to a marketing list created by Freecause, which is used to strictly create revenue streams for third parties (and of course themselves), via annoying, malicious tools. Seems to be run by a CTO that has unresolved childhood issues where he must feel authoritative. That may work in other countries, but this is the US.

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