Frontend Developer applicants have rated the interview process at Rakuten with 3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 60% positive. To compare, the company-average is 44.5% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Frontend Developer roles take an average of 14 days to get hired, when considering 5 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 Frontend Developer according to 5 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 29%
Skills test: 14%
Personality test: 14%
Presentation: 14%
Group panel interview: 14%
Background check: 14%
Here are the most commonly searched roles for interview reports -
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Rakuten in Mar 2022
Interview
Up to 5 interviews rounds starting from small talk with HR and ending with a team interview. Usually, your skill is tested with an assessment and then following an interview, not really related to the assessment, but more of general programming knowledge questions to define if you know what you are talking about.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
General Front end tooling questions related to the position. A lot of the times question were behavioral and not a lot of times technical.
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Rakuten (Bengaluru) in Jan 2026
Interview
I had intro call HR with basic questions, No update after HR discussion. Basic Questions which are expected, Intro, Background and Behavioural along with Culture fitness. Prepare well on the cultural round.
Online assessment asking 2 questions, 1 was basic showing that you can code, while the other was a leetcode medium which was not easy. Given 1 hour to solve which was a fair amount of time. However, I could not use javascript to solve the problem which was bad.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1 simple question about math -> like add 2 numbers, basically seeing if you can code
1 medium hard leetcode which involved backtracking
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Rakuten (Tokyo)
Interview
I had to submit a form that includes my personal information and current salary (red flag). I was interviewed by a texh lead and his general frontend questions were not clear and not job related.