Rakuten·Software Engineer

Rakuten Software Engineer interview experience

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BengaluruPosted Sep 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I ended up having three rounds, and the whole thing felt notably harder than I expected.

The first technical interview started with introductions and then moved quickly into DSA work—trees in particular—with a medium-hard question. The second technical round went deeper in both breadth and coding style: I handled multiple DSA questions, plus implementation topics that touched on patterns and concurrency concepts like the decorator pattern, async behavior, multithreading, and even a singleton-style class.

The third round was where it became more direct and stressful. The conversation started immediately with a “why do you want to leave” style question, and then another DSA

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