Rakuten

1. Employee caring company
2. Job security
3. Give lot of good quality and useful goodies and merchandise.

1. Bad paymaster.
2. Not a product-based company; it is more like services-based, since everything is driven from Japan.
3. It is not for technically challenging people; they prefer bilingual engineers, even though they may not be technically good.
4. Here, only engineers with Java and full-stack technology are valued.
5. Stand-up meetings are early in the morning at 7:30 am, just because it is convenient for them, since it is around 10 am there.
6. If you want to learn technically and grow, then this is not the company for you; this is good for people who want to retire.

The Indian management must be emphatic and get some products here from Japan. They must have the freedom to drive from here. I have heard the management talking, "We should get the product here," but it has never been implemented. Also, pay as per the industry standards. Each vertical has different pay scales. For example, Fintech companies in India pay really well, which is not the case at Rakuten.