Rakuten Software Engineer interview experience (2023)

Rakuten Software Engineer interview experience

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Positive

SingaporePosted Feb 2023 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I started with an online coding step that felt fairly manageable: a single easy-style LeetCode problem on a shared document, and the interviewer also probed how I was thinking as I worked, including whether I could improve the solution.

After that, the process moved into a more personal round where we talked through my past projects and experience in a conversational, friendly way.

What stood out to me was that the interviews weren’t just a pure coding grind. One interviewer asked me to walk through my background and then kept following up based on what I’d said. It leaned more on the story behind my experience than on deep technical questioning. Even where the format was clearly “technical,” it still felt accessible compared with the hardest coding screens I’d seen elsewhere.

Overall, the journey was straightforward and I

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