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Applications Engineer
Current Employee
Has worked at Rakuten for 1 year
February 21, 2019
Tokyo, Japan
3.0
RecommendsPositive OutlookNo CEO Opinion
Pros
  • No overtime.
  • Nice working environment.
  • People are nice.
  • Food is free.
  • If you work in IT, you can apply to other positions internally if you are not satisfied with your current position.
Cons

Depending on the manager/department, the methodology can be different.

This is related to my point of view in relation to my team/manager:

  • Development methodology is not Agile; it's Waterfall. There are too many steps and documentation, even for very simple tasks.
  • There is a lot of micromanagement. You are not trusted to get the tasks done by yourself.
  • The official position is Application Engineer, but we have to do sysadmin, devops, and QA tasks as well, since there is no role separation. The consequence is very little time spent on real software development-related tasks.
  • Because of that, the applications are big balls of mud.

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