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Node.js Fun, Low Code Standards

Software Engineer
Current Employee
Has worked at Rakuten for 1 year
November 20, 2014
Boston, Massachusetts
4.0
RecommendsPositive OutlookNo CEO Opinion
Pros

Competitive intern salary based on skill. If you are comfortable with Node.js, you will enjoy working there as their web service back-end is in Node.js. They try to keep up with the latest frameworks to improve their development stack.

Cons

Entry-level salary isn't very competitive.

No code review. Low standards for code. Even though they seem to have a good mentality of what their coding standards should be, their actual code doesn't reflect that.

Advice to Management

There should be more comprehensive training, and the bar for employing engineers should be much higher.

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