Rakuten Software Engineer interview experience

I started when a recruiter reached out, and I scheduled a phone screen—then the recruiter never showed up at the set time. When I followed up to reschedule, there was no reply, and the whole thing felt unprofessional.

At the same time, I also noticed how the process could vary in quality depending on who handled it. In my case, I didn’t get any momentum after that missed screen, and it lingered in a frustrating way rather than moving toward actual interviews. Eventually, I ran into the same pattern of silence, which made it hard to tell whether I was still in consideration.

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