Rakuten·Software Engineer

Rakuten Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Medium

Positive

GeorgiaPosted Apr 2022 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I had a one-hour interview where the conversation started with my background and the frameworks I used.

From there, it moved into how I handled deployment and deeper questions about the architecture of a project I was currently working on. It didn’t stay at a high level for long; I got into fairly detailed design-level discussion.

There was also one live coding task during the session, which made the interview feel more hands-on rather than purely conversational. The combination of architecture questioning and live coding was intense but manageable.

I didn’t get an offer. What I found most memorable was how quickly the discussion shifted from experience and frameworks into concrete

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