Rakuten reviews

3.6

72% would recommend to a friend

(3,548 total reviews)
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Hiroshi Mikitani

76% approve of CEO

56% positive business outlook

Rakuten has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 3,548 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Rakuten employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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4K reviews
4.0
Apr 7, 2017

Good workplace

Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Free meals every day Staff are very nice Much less stress than other Japanese companies

Cons

There can be too many meetings depending on your team "Englishnization" can be noticed easily but still a lot of employees use Japanese only in the office

3.0
Mar 31, 2017

Software engineer

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Good working place and food benefit .

Cons

company is too big to control

3.0
Mar 28, 2017

Moving towards globalisation

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Global working environment with colleagues from various background

Cons

Internal politics is a concern

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