Rakuten·Software Engineer

Rakuten Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Medium

Negative

San Mateo, CAPosted Apr 2022 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My interview was supposed to be a long, structured session with multiple people, but it ended up being a pretty jarring experience.

I was told it would take around five hours with several different interviewers. Instead, the first interviewer stopped my session partway through, and it happened right when I asked for more detail to fully understand the technical question.

That moment felt like a lack of alignment between the person who selected me for the in-person interview and the teammate who then conducted the first part. It made me feel like the process wasn’t coordinated around the same expectations, and that threw off the flow.

I didn’t get an offer. Even with a lot of experience, it was one of those interviews

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