Rakuten Kobo reviews

-Unclear advancement path. Growth within the company seems to be related more to who you know than to how hard you have worked or contributed to the company -Large salary discrepancies between same roles/positions in different divisions -Some inexperienced managerial staff -Unclear HR policies about bonuses, responsibilities, job descriptions and job bands. -Silo mentality: Some teams like to work in a vacuum dismissing collaboration with other departments

Terrible management of company expenses. They had a massive downsizing in May of 2014 (160+ people lost their job in one day) . All the executives kept posting photos of their exotic trips around Africa (cage diving with sharks and sipping alcoholic drinks by the pool side , just to name a few) while at the same time knowing the company was not doing well financially. In the end this led to the company being taken over by Rakuten as our ex CEO went off with possible a huge payout to start another business. Oh another thing, a lot of people only received a 1% raise. Back in 2013 it was 3%.