Teena built her career as a project manager in Bengaluru, the Silicon Valley of India. She joined Rakuten Group mid-career after discovering the Rakuten Travel service during a visit to Japan. We interviewed Teena about her journey to join…

Musa, who is from Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, joined Rakuten Group in March 2024. Currently, he works not only as a backend developer, but also as a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) for the Rakuten Travel service. This time, we interv…

Liza, who is from Moscow, came to Japan to learn Japanese. She fell in love with Japan, and after working in another IT company for five years, she decided to join Rakuten Group mid-career in October 2022 as a partner staff, later changing…

Hai is from Hanoi, Vietnam. He applied for a full-time position at Rakuten Group but was not selected, so he worked as a temporary staff for a year and a half before becoming a full-time employee. What does Hai, who also has experience wor…

Rakuten Group is a global company where English is the official language within the company. Rina, who is fluent in three languages, Korean, English, and Japanese, joined Rakuten Group wanting to put her language skills to use. We asked Ri…

Hi, this is R-Hack editorial office. Jackie, from the Philippines, became a member of Rakuten Group when the startup she was working at was acquired by Rakuten Group. We interviewed Jackie, who was promoted to Assistant Manager after joini…

MIP (Most Impressive Person) is one of the internal awards in Rakuten Group Commerce & Marketing Company Development Department, presented once every quarter to the people who contributed the most to the organization from among all Company…

MIP (Most Impressive Person) is one of the internal awards in Rakuten Group Commerce & Marketing Company Development Department, presented once every quarter to the people who contributed the most to the organization from among all Company…

Katsuo is the mother of two boys, one in elementary school, the other in kindergarten. She joined Rakuten Group in April 2011 as a new graduate, and after taking maternity and childcare leave, she is now working as a Product Manager in the…

Yama, who studied machine learning and molecular dynamics method, worked as an intern and part-timer while in school before joining Rakuten Group as a new graduate in April 2021. In his first year as a DevOps engineer, he served as a proje…

Our team works on bringing the best user experience as well integrating Rakuten services along with adapting to latest technologies. Brief Introduction: As a tech e-commerce giant with the tagline Shopping is Entertainment, our goal is to …

Hi, everyone. This is R-Hack editorial office. There are a variety of people working here at Rakuten Group. In this “Work Style” series, I would like to introduce each team in Rakuten Commerce Company, through the voices of the people work…

Hi, everyone. This is Yumi from R-Hack editorial office. Rakuten Commerce Tech has decided to choose two MIPs out of all 1,800 Commerce Tech employees once every quarter from 2021. This time, I would like to introduce the two winners of th…

Rakuten has been working on “diversity” for many years, including the adoption of English as the official language. Currently, there are 25,000 people working in the entire Rakuten Group (as of March 2021), and the percentage of people wit…

Hello! This is R-Hack team. Do you know a job called “product manager”? It is abbreviated as PDM and is meant to be the guarantor of the success of a product. This time we had an interview with Taku who works as a PDM. R-Hack - Hi, thank y…

Where is the most comfortable meeting room in your home? Thank you for visiting R-Hack. This time, I wrote the second article about working from home. Please enjoy it! How have you been spending your time recently? This is Freddie. I am a …

Hi, everyone. This is the R-Hack editorial office. Today, let us introduce an employee who joined Rakuten after having “夏の陣 – Summer Intern”. An engineer, Mac-san, entered Rakuten as new graduates in April, 2017. Hi, Mac-san, it is good…

Todayʼs story is about Natsuki, an engineer who works in Rakuten Beauty Technology and took the paternity leave from January to March 2019. His baby was around 8 months old at the time he took the paternity leave, when a big project was ju…

We have a number of new joiners every month; now we would like to introduce those successful new hires in this series. Surprisingly, some people come from completely different industries- the first story is about Masao, who was hired as a …