Rakuten

The colleagues are bright and friendly.

Employee training is good.

Work-life balance makes developing a second career possible.

A high-tier Japanese employee cannot speak or understand English.

The company is starting its return to the office while Tokyo virus cases spike. Some employees were infected by the virus in the Tokyo office.

Low pay causes the company to be unable to hire employees with regular skills.

Low pay makes employees company-wide unwilling to make their regular performance.

The company's future is dark due to Rakuten Mobile failing to compete with Docomo's mobile plans. The business losing trend began in December 2020.

Some managers will try to undermine disfavored members in order to achieve their favored results. This symptom cannot be known before you have a performance talk. They usually place their faults onto you to reduce their own failures.

Try to think: how do we achieve 80% of an Amazon employee's salary? This place cannot reach 80% of Amazon's employee pay, even if you are a top performer.

There is no way to compete with Amazon if your salary is much lower than theirs.