Common interview, no difficult question 1. Applicant screening (by agent) Requirement: TOEIC 800 and over 2.Web programming test and web video interview Programming: difficult programming test(to program to compute the area of rectangle) Interview question: introduce yourself, why Rakuten, describe your strength, your career path 3.Questionnaire Be informed to answer some questionnaire: desired annual income, term to quit, etc 4.Interview in person at Rakuten headquarter (in Japanese) Question base on experience. (parts of question was in English) 5.Interview over Skype Question: introduce yourself, your experience, the difficulty you had met and how did you overcome it. 6.Interview in person at Rakuten headquarter Question base on experience 7.Reading books and writing essay Essays of 2 books of the president(Mikitani) 8.Final Interview in person at Rakuten headquarter Company culture was explained. no formal question. 9.Offer Meeting in person at Rakuten headquarter Offer contract explanation by HR. One week provided to make the decision.

easy as usually, but could be more efficient, if you're an experienced developer, should be easy to pass, so basically you can try this before others, some of the interviewer are not professional