Run away as fast as you can - Anonymous employee Rakuten Employee Review

* Tons of red tape when working with the teams and process in Tokyo * Salaries and compensation are below market * Forced to sit through 45 minute presentation at 9am every Monday morning where you're force-fed the latest company propaganda * HR is really lackluster, not enough training available * Lots of office politics and insane matrixed management structure * Lack of innovation - only copying other companies ideas. * Awful employees stick around for years because the environment breeds mediocrity. Hard to push low performers out so the high performers are leaving for better companies. * If you are not Japanese, prepare to hit the "bamboo ceiling" at some point