It was good experience but the culture doesn’t really fit to me - Manager Rakuten Employee Review

4.0
May 10, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

- Free breakfast, lunch and dinner - Doing their business pretty well in Japan - Many good engineers

Cons

- Top down corporate culture - Asakai(morning meeting) attendance affect your evaluation - I have seen many good people left because they didn’t like how the company treat employees

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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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