Rakuten Staff Engineer salaries in India (Updated 2025)

Likes

* Depends on team, but work life balance is good in most of the teams. * Work location is center of the city with access to metro

Dislikes

* Indian management does not have much say in day to day work or appraisals. * Pay is average * Time is spent more on process rather than actual code and at the last moment after all the development the product might not go to production * Japanese work culture, you are not appreciated even if you deliver above and beyond your role

Likes

- Good work life balance and job security

Dislikes

- Salary much lesser than industry standards and disparity in the same team as well. - Politics and micromanagement in a few teams. - No clear vision for all teams and so no growth plans

Likes

Work culture, Autonomy to showcase you opinion and ideas. Salaries are attractive and Office is very Hitech, increments and bonus.

Dislikes

No Transport Facility , No hybrid work model, ProMotion are rare and slow

Likes

- Company is good in terms of job security. - Projects are average but you will get a chance to learn from end to end. - provide free food and travel . - yearly hikes are also good average 10% max 15 to 20%

Dislikes

...y. - less opportunities to grow in terms of carrier wise. - internal politics. - very bad salary structure.

Likes

Pay is decent

Dislikes

Dirty politics Japan management is the worst, especially if you end up working for Database support roles. Biased people If you want to grow, do not even look at this an an option to join Slave culture Indian employees are more lf order takers and puppets, No one has any authority, a good for nothing senior leader from Japan can mess your professional life or even the entire team’s life for good. I would say, never accept an offer from them. If you want to learn, there are plenty of good companies out there. Even a good employee under the third class brainless management will suffer