Salary is not so good - Applications Engineer Rakuten Employee Review

3.0
Sep 26, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

Rakuten is a big eCommerce company in Japan, so you have many chances to do different projects.

Cons

Though their official language is English, you have to study Japanese in order to communicate well.

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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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