Rakuten Software Engineer interview experience

I started with an intro and a discussion of my projects, then the round quickly moved into a couple of DSA-style questions like binary search and removing duplicates from an array, with follow-ups on how I’d handle it in JavaScript. There were also fundamental OOP questions.

From there, the technical questions stayed grounded: things like how filtering works in JavaScript and core OOP concepts showed up, along with core Java basics such as method overloading and overriding, annotations, and HTTP methods from Spring Boot. MySQL basics also came up, so the questions felt like the kind of daily