Rakuten·Software Engineer

Rakuten Software Engineer interview experience

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BengaluruPosted Jun 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My process took a couple of weeks, and the overall difficulty felt easy to medium.

I went through an initial assessment, then a technical round that lasted about two hours. In that session, I was given two medium LeetCode-style problems and a practical machine-learning implementation task where I had to implement a function like maxpool from scratch, plus basic pandas-style operations.

After that, I expected things to continue smoothly, but a senior manager round got rescheduled repeatedly—three times—with short notice. Each time, it turned into a quick, 10–15 minute check-in focused mostly on basic questions about my projects and resume. After the final scheduling chaos,

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