Rakuten reviews

3.6

71% would recommend to a friend

(3,543 total reviews)
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Hiroshi Mikitani

77% approve of CEO

56% positive business outlook

Rakuten has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 3,543 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Rakuten employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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4.0
Jul 11, 2015

Nice working place

Recommend
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Pros

Freedom in setting up the work to do Receive salary raise in every evaluation Evaluation is twice a year Good people as teammates to work with

Cons

Need to look for work by ourselves (self-driven) Too much relying on vendors (sometimes boring just do management as an engineer) Bureaucracy is quite troublesome

3.0
Jun 30, 2015

So far so good..

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

I like the atmosphere and the salary is nice.

Cons

Like someone already said, some things are a bit too top-down. This is the traditional Japanese style.

3.0
Apr 24, 2015

Global Marketing Manager

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

very friendly and smart team mates

Cons

Other teams are very japan-style working culture, no benefit other than

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