Great place to start out - Front End Engineer Rakuten Employee Review

4.0
Jan 23, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

More than 30% of workers in the Tokyo headquarters are non-Japanese, so you can find your own community. With a large variety of businesses, you can develop your career or transfer to a new place to get new experiences. Great stepping stone for your career, and pays generously for new graduate employees.

Cons

The company can be resistant to change, and for better or worse, it's heavily influenced by the CEO's wishes. It also has very few women in high-level leadership. Employees who join right after graduation have few opportunities to get much higher pay.

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5.0
Mar 25, 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.

4.0
Jul 9, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Good benefits and some managers were supportive and helpful.

Cons

Cuthroat environment. Most of the other managers micromanaged and put unrealistic deadlines while asking you to train other employees.

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