Rakuten·QA Automation Engineer

Rakuten QA Automation Engineer interview experience

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BengaluruPosted Jul 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I went into Rakuten for a senior SDET manager track with a long background, and the process felt misaligned from the start.

I ended up with three rounds: a first technical round that covered string-related questions, SQL, system architecture, and microservices. The second round was more manual, and the third round stayed manual as well.

By the final discussion, the questions turned into very scenario-style workload testing ideas, like strategies for turning 20 million test cases into 200, and how I would write scenarios for things like Facebook. Those questions were asked by the department head, and the way it felt during the conversation gave me the strong impression they intended to reject me anyway. It left me

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