Rakuten·Full Stack Engineer

Rakuten Full Stack Engineer interview experience

No offer

Hard

Negative

TokyoPosted Jul 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

After applying, I waited about a week and then received an invitation to take a programming test on HackerRank.

The test had two programming problems, and the key part was passing the provided test cases.

Overall it felt like a straightforward gateway—less about a long back-and-forth interview and more about whether I could implement the solutions correctly under test conditions. I didn’t end up getting an offer, but the experience was clear: if the code passed the cases, I moved forward, and I just didn’t make it all the way.

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