Rakuten·Software Engineer

Rakuten Software Engineer interview experience

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TokyoPosted Jun 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

After the initial email invite, my interviews followed a fairly team-centered sequence.

I ended up doing a round with the team manager and another member where most questions were theoretical, tied to my previous projects, and mixed in behavior questions. That round lasted around forty minutes and felt like a real conversation rather than a checklist.

From there, the process shifted into additional technical and HR-style evaluation. The interviews I went through were all conducted online, and the setup had a consistent theme: they cared a lot about how quickly and clearly I could express my code logic. Even when something wasn’t compiling in the moment, what mattered was

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