Web Applications Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Rakuten with 2.3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 33% positive. To compare, the company-average is 44.5% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Web Applications Engineer roles take an average of 45 days to get hired, when considering 3 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Rakuten overall takes an average of 35 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Rakuten as a Web Applications Engineer according to 3 Glassdoor interviews include:
One on one interview: 29%
Skills test: 29%
Phone interview: 14%
Presentation: 14%
Personality test: 14%
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I applied in-person. The process took 4 days. I interviewed at Rakuten (Singapore) in Feb 2016
Interview
4 Rounds Including HR. First round was Technical by Architect.
Second Round was By General Manager
Third Round was by the Senior Director
Fourth Round was by the HR
It was fun! Everyone is cool here. Very quick in giving responses. Very fruitful.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Project, Experience on Java Script. Security. OWSAP.
At the very beginning, you will be invited to a fairly easy code test. It consists of three questions. Something about array. If you are able to pass it, you will be invited to 2 rounds of onsite interviews, one technical and one behavioral.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Explain GC Make a quick service with following requirements
Contacted by Consultancy a round of skype discussion with that person.
They will explain you in detail then they give 1 hour test.
After that test cleared they forwarded my resume further and after some day one more 1 hour test.
After that is clear they scheduled my skype interview with company employee.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Their questions are
1)Which RDBMS you will choose for large dataset and why
2)Version controlling(Git command to ignore particular file.I mentioned .gitignore that he not considered)
3)Architecture
i)API
ii)Application
4)Automation of deployment
5)Caching
6)Redis vs memcache
7)How to switch from RDBMS to NoSQL and vice versa
etc.
I applied through college or university. The process took 6 weeks. I interviewed at Rakuten (Hong Kong) in Nov 2016
Interview
Online programming test. if passed, you will be invited for an interview. I passed and I was invited. But didn't pass the interview. I didn't prepare for such technical questions