Great for Coasting - Software Engineer Rakuten Employee Review

3.0
28 Feb 2025
Recommend
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Pros

Chill life, but depends heavily on the team.

Cons

No growth opportunities as engineers are seen as easily dispensable

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5.0
25 Mar 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Rakuten Rewards has great life balance. Too bad the economy was getting rocked.

Cons

Don't really have any cons. I understand that the market's been hard so had to downsize the force, so that was kinda challenging. Hopefully AI will increase everyone's output.

1.0
6 Jul 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Free food, benefits are good

Cons

Pay was so bad. The management was awful.

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