Challenging, but co-workers are not skillful
Challenging, but co-workers are not skillful
Rakuten is a big company, with many engineers and departments. You can transfer to your preferred position if you have the skill. (You need to take another interview when you ask for an internal transfer).
There are many challenging tasks in every department and for every product, but it depends on your skill to get such challenging tasks.
Rakuten started RTO and many skillful engineers retired.
Still, products are working, but developers are quite unskilled.
Even if they have trouble, they do not realize the root cause.
Root causes are almost not prepared for operation and testing.
But they cannot understand because they are not...
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It was supposed to be an interview with HR, but unfortunately, they didn’t show up. I followed up politely to see if we could reschedule, but I didn’t receive any response. Overall, it was a disappointing experience.
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Applied online on Rakuten's website in September for intern positions. Waited a month for the online test. It was super easy, impossible to not get perfect if you are a CS major. Waited two weeks for the result, then scheduled for the Skype intervi
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I contacted the company online, sent my CV, and waited for a phone call or email. They contacted me after two weeks and sent me two links: one for a webcam interview and the other for a code test.
SRE/DevOps Engineer
SingaporeJune 8, 2025It was supposed to be an interview with HR, but unfortunately, they didn’t show up. I followed up politely to see if we could reschedule, but I didn’t receive any response. Overall, it was a disappointing experience.
Software Engineer
Kasuga, Fukuoka Prefecture, JapanFebruary 1, 2017Applied online on Rakuten's website in September for intern positions. Waited a month for the online test. It was super easy, impossible to not get perfect if you are a CS major. Waited two weeks for the result, then scheduled for the Skype intervi
Java Developer
Sakai, Osaka, JapanDecember 1, 2015I contacted the company online, sent my CV, and waited for a phone call or email. They contacted me after two weeks and sent me two links: one for a webcam interview and the other for a code test.
