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Would not recommend - Anonymous employee Rakuten Kobo Employee Review

2.0
Mar 22, 2022
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Great at fostering a community vibe, fun social activities, good people to work with

Cons

The longer you work at Kobo, the more difficult it becomes to put up with being overworked and underpaid compared to market salaries. Zero opportunity for growth or salary increase, even for employees with outstanding feedback from managers and who are on the right growth plan trajectories. No attempt to retain their existing talent, which is why turnover is so high. Unfortunately, no matter how hard you work to prove yourself, you’ll always be undervalued at Kobo.

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Rakuten Kobo Response
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We appreciate you taking the time to leave your review. We agree that Rakuten Kobo’s people and culture are strong, but are sorry to hear other elements of your experience were less than satisfactory. Providing our employees with ample career and professional development is a key motivator for us. We continue to invest in our Learning and Development offerings by introducing new development opportunities based on employee feedback. Our frequent Organizational Health Surveys and company-wide Pulse Checks also serve as a great looking-glass into how our most important resource, our employees, feel about the status of things at Rakuten Kobo. We take the feedback seriously and work to implement improvements based on the responses. Thank you for taking the time to leave a review and we wish you the best in your future endeavours!

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