Rakuten

I just started a few weeks ago, but so far I'm loving the place. I'm at the Beloit office.

I live a good distance away, so they let me work from home twice a week, which is very nice.

But I actually don't mind driving the ~60 miles to the office most days, since it's pretty great to be there. Everyone there is super nice. And they have food - so much food!

When I'm in the office, I eat breakfast and lunch there, on the house. They cater lunches and post the next week's menu at the end of each week.

And they basically have a fully-stocked kitchen:

• Tons and tons of snacks (dispensers with M&Ms and cashews all over the office).
• A full soda fountain with Coke and Pepsi products.
• And even a kegerator with a rotating batch of beer and hard cider.

All just there for you to have whenever you want. All they ask is that you don't bring any of it home with you, which is totally reasonable.

As far as the work goes, most of my team is actually in California, so there's lots of video calls. I'm working on a large and complex piece of software now, but I came from a tiny dev shop before this, so the transition hasn't been without challenges for me.

But the team has been super accommodating of that, and I really appreciate it.

Beloit isn't the best location to have an office; the Madison area would be far better. But much of their workforce at that office lives in Illinois, so it's totally understandable.

Can't think of much more than that for now, but I'm pretty new still. Will definitely update if things change in the future.