Rakuten Software Engineer interview experience

Each conversation was about 30 minutes, and everything was conducted in Japanese. The early manager rounds mostly leaned behavioral, the kind of questions that felt aimed at new-graduate style fit rather than deep technical dives.

My experience felt uneven: one interviewer barely introduced themselves and the whole conversation felt like I was doing all the talking, without much context about the role or the company. The final parts were similarly structured, and I remember leaving with the sense that the process wasn’t very conversational or welcoming. Overall it was average in difficulty,