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Rakuten Kobo

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Good people but terrible executive management. - Marketing Designer Rakuten Kobo Employee Review

1.0
Mar 31, 2015
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Pros

If you get into a great team, you'll enjoy working there. The people was the reason why I enjoyed working there everyday.

Cons

Terrible management of company expenses. They had a massive downsizing in May of 2014 (160+ people lost their job in one day) . All the executives kept posting photos of their exotic trips around Africa (cage diving with sharks and sipping alcoholic drinks by the pool side , just to name a few) while at the same time knowing the company was not doing well financially. In the end this led to the company being taken over by Rakuten as our ex CEO went off with possible a huge payout to start another business. Oh another thing, a lot of people only received a 1% raise. Back in 2013 it was 3%.

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