Rakuten interview questions
Updated Jun 2, 2026Difficulty
Average
Experience
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How others got an interview
- 16%RecruiterRecruiter
- 10%Campus RecruitingCampus Recruiting
- 8%Employee ReferralEmployee Referral
- 8%Staffing AgencyStaffing Agency
- 2%In PersonIn Person
- 2%OtherOther
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Rakuten interviews FAQs
- Glassdoor users rated their interview experience at Rakuten as 49.8% positive with a difficulty rating score of 2.86 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty). Candidates interviewing for SDE-intern and SSE2 rated their interviews as the hardest, whereas interviews for Application Systems Engineer and Senior Systems Engineer roles were rated as the easiest.
- The hiring process at Rakuten takes an average of 21 days when considering 291 user submitted interviews across all job titles. Candidates applying for Software Test Engineer had the quickest hiring process (on average 1 day), whereas Data Scientist roles had the slowest hiring process (on average 120 days).
- Common stages of the interview process at Rakuten according to 291 Glassdoor interviews include:
One on one interview: 23%
Phone interview: 17%
Skills test: 16%
Presentation: 11%
Personality test: 9%
Group panel interview: 8%
Background check: 6%
IQ intelligence test: 5%
Other: 4%
Drug test: 2%
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