Rakuten reviews

3.6

71% would recommend to a friend

(3,534 total reviews)
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Hiroshi Mikitani

78% approve of CEO

56% positive business outlook

Rakuten has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 3,534 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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2.0
Aug 17, 2015

Less commitment of top management

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Great team culture that makes you feel comfortable in working with other colleagues.

Cons

Top management does not have enough commitment for a strategy, accordingly the company goes back and forth, which in the end led to achieving nothing.

1.0
Jul 6, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

The only pros were the people and the perks before, but both are gone now.

Cons

No perks, ridiculous hours, not much vacation, terrible management, no standards, bad practices, clients that hate the company, untrustworthy HR, high employee turnover, bad projects, favoritism, language barriers caused by management who do not understand US English, terrible office with not enough conference rooms and no privacy, lies, deception, no growth, no challenges...the list can go on, the worst company you could ever work for.

1.0
Jul 29, 2021

No culture

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- Decent salary - Some (very little) stock options and equity - Nothing much more.

Cons

- Extreme, extreme, extreme bureaucracy - US Team makes no decisions, whatsoever. Goes through bureaucratic process that takes months - Only people from India can thrive. If you are not from India, they get rid of you. Racism.

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