Work Culture and Management - Anonymous employee Rakuten Employee Review

4.0
Sep 11, 2014
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Good work life balance. Not so much workload. Product Managers are good and comes with really good requirement.

Cons

Everyone is given director of engineering title in the engineering team, but they would do developer's work. At the same time they like to behave like directors and don't do work.

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Pros

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Cons

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4.0
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Pros

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Cons

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