Rakuten Cloud Engineer interview experience

They asked about multi-cloud experience and how I’d set up control towers, policies, IAM, permission sets, and how RBAC and ABAC map across different cloud providers. The questions were basically aimed at understanding whether I genuinely had hands-on experience working with those services.

The difficulty was marked as average, and the interview format felt like a deep dive into my real work rather than a generic coding exercise. I didn’t move forward to an offer, and what I remember most is how specific the subject matter was—if my experience didn’t connect cleanly to those exact governance