Rakuten Software Engineer interview experience

That first conversation was resume-driven: we talked through my background, technologies I’d used, and some basic Java questions. Salary expectations came up, and they also spent time clarifying what the role and team actually looked like.

After that, I hit a LeetCode-style question that didn’t turn into a full coding exercise; they asked me to describe my approach instead. Then I was given a system design question where I had to reason through how I’d structure a solution at a higher level. The final part of the process still had a behavior component, and there was a noticeable cultural