Decent working culture
Decent working culture
Good work-life balance, many fun activities, and great benefits.
Pay can be better. Stock options are in JPY, hence not worth much. Asked to return to office four days a week starting 2026.
Time management for teams can be done better. Since the beginning of the year is pretty relaxed, it gets hectic towards the end.
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Devops Engineer
General introduction questions. The hiring manager asked about past experience and some behavioral questions. The second round was conducted by two other engineers from the team to conduct the technical round.
Software Engineer (ML/AI)
Talked about the general knowledge of how to build multi-source data pipelines to gather different forms of data and put them into a data lake, distributed system design, and microservice architecture. The coding part consists of Python and SQL. Bot
Senior Software Developer
Referral from an employee. Rakuten reached out very fast, within a day. A phone interview was scheduled right away. Did not pass to the next step due to lack of experience for the position.
Devops Engineer
Toronto, Ontario, CanadaOctober 30, 2025General introduction questions. The hiring manager asked about past experience and some behavioral questions. The second round was conducted by two other engineers from the team to conduct the technical round.
Software Engineer (ML/AI)
Toronto, Ontario, CanadaAugust 1, 2022Talked about the general knowledge of how to build multi-source data pipelines to gather different forms of data and put them into a data lake, distributed system design, and microservice architecture. The coding part consists of Python and SQL. Bot
Senior Software Developer
Toronto, Ontario, CanadaJanuary 1, 2020Referral from an employee. Rakuten reached out very fast, within a day. A phone interview was scheduled right away. Did not pass to the next step due to lack of experience for the position.
