Rakuten Full Stack Engineer interview experience

In one call, the interviewer began by quickly walking through my resume and then moved into a medium-level coding problem while screen sharing. I got the sense that the goal was to confirm I could implement cleanly and explain my thinking.

After that initial technical screen, I had a fuller video/onsite style conversation where I had to write code and then talk through what I was doing as questions came up. The technical content centered on “basic fullstack” style topics and standard DSA-style problems—nothing tricked-out beyond core fundamentals. There was also a panel with two interviewers