Rakuten·Software Engineer

Rakuten Software Engineer interview experience

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Medium

Positive

IndiaPosted Jan 2024 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I went through a fairly structured multi-round loop: a recruiter screen first, then a total of six interviews.

Three of those were technical and three were more behavioral, leaning on managers and product-focused conversations.

On the technical side, I remember mixing OOP topics with core coding/math-style problem solving, and one round included a more formal DSA and linked-list/tree-style problem component. Another technical portion felt anchored around higher-level design, so I wasn’t only writing code—I had to talk through how I would approach design at a high level before drilling into specifics.

The overall tone was smooth. Interviewers were supportive, and the HR/product/manager rounds were

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