Rakuten·Software Engineer

Rakuten Software Engineer interview experience

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Negative

SingaporePosted Sep 2024 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My experience didn’t feel like a normal back-and-forth interview.

From the start, it was extremely hard to communicate with the interviewer, and the tone felt hostile. I kept trying to engage with ideas that were outside their specific tech stack, but every time something unfamiliar came up, it was dismissed.

What threw me off most was how little it seemed to matter whether my points were correct versus what they already believed. The interviewer repeated outdated information about certain technologies, and it made the conversation feel more like disagreement than assessment.

Even though I went in expecting a technical discussion, the whole round felt

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