Rakuten Software Engineer interview experience

I was selected and then went quiet for more than two months, with no response and no clear communication about where things stood. When they finally reached out, it was informal and on very short notice, which made it hard to feel confident that the process was being run with any consistency.

When I did reach the actual interview stage, the technical screen felt off in a different way: it was conducted by someone less experienced, and it didn’t feel tied to a clear goal for assessing my background. Instead, it came across like a vague filtering step, more concerned with ticking boxes than