Underwhelming company and culture. - Anonymous employee Rakuten Employee Review

2.0
24 Jan 2022
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

-Not much going on so work life balance is fine. - They underpay so lots of unqualified candidates so easy to be high performer

Cons

-Discombobulated teams - Below market salaries - overarching Japanese top down culture - too many pointless meetings

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5.0
25 Mar 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.

1.0
6 Jul 2026
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Pros

Free food, benefits are good

Cons

Pay was so bad. The management was awful.

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