Rakuten

1. Applied through the official Rakuten career page. 2. Scheduled my interview date after a few days. 3. Interviewers asked technical questions and talked about my experiences as a dev.

I went through a recruiter but got the response pretty quick from Rakuten. First, I had to do a programming test on Codility. I highly recommend doing a couple of trial runs on other lessons if you are not familiar with it. I got a response asking

It was a nice interview with nice people and a pleasant environment. They asked a few technical questions, but then talked about the company. Finally, they came back to me in a few weeks. Beware of how they act. You must be polite.