Needs More Seasoned Tech Leaders - Anonymous employee Rakuten Employee Review

2.0
Feb 25, 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Great benefits, excellent people, CEO is a great guy, good work and personal life balance. Free lunch on Fridays and sometimes Monday's.

Cons

The people running tech, at no fault of their own, have no clue what they're doing. The CTO is in Britain not able to help. The leadership in the SLC office is a collective "shoulder shrug" when anyone has an issue that needs to be escalated. Most of the devs are junior. The systems team is 2 or 3 people (not nearly enough). And nothing seems to get done in tech. Just endless, pointless projects that don't make any money but cost a lot.

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5.0
Mar 25, 2026
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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
Jun 22, 2026
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Pros

Flexible Hours, Benefits, Pay, lunch provided 3 days per week,

Cons

There were no cons while I was there

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