Pros: Laptop, Free food (which is not good).

Cons: Where to start? 1. India Rakuten center is established for 24/7 monitoring only. Whether you have come from a full-stack background or backend, you will be handed over a support phone and asked to do application support. All the good development work is routed to Japan teams, and monitoring and support work is dumped to India. 2. There is no tech stack here, just maintenance and filling up Confluence pages. Lots of Confluence pages. 3. Strict timing culture, as followed in service companies. 4. Asakai meetings on early Monday mornings are just a pure headache. 5. Infrastructure is not good; there are no cabins, and some meeting rooms do not have tables and chairs, which can result in regular back pain. 6. You can find micromanagement in Rakuten's core values (they will represent this as our unique culture), i.e., Japanese slave culture. 7. They will trap you by giving you good money (of course) on your current offer letter. Last but not least, if you don't consider my review or think I am over-exaggerating, you will definitely regret joining there.

Pros: Work-life balance is good.

Cons: Not many cons are there.

Pros: Free lunch and nice-ish employees. I seriously don't know what else.

Cons: Silly company rules that slow down every single process. Lack of communication. The environment is still extremely Japanese and not willing to embrace diversity. The culture is almost military-like, where everyone is expected to behave the same, following the nonsensical work process. Departments don't communicate well with each other, resulting in you always having to explain the situations when you get contacted by multiple people from different sectors, especially in English.