Staffs have two very different impressions about Cookpad. If you are already familiar with the domain knowledge and tech stacks in Cookpad, and outstandingly strong in Ruby community or independent at work, you will get a positive impression. Otherwise ...
Senior developers especially the international team in Japan conduct with bullying manner when discussing anything. Quite often pull requests are blocked with the time difference and we needed to wait for new review rounds till next day.
Managers, on the other hand, looked unaware or neglect the fact as far as the senior developers look control deliveries of outcomes. And, they kept asking for unreasonable requests. As a result, newcomers somehow managed to find out a way to meet the deadlines and mitigate the frustration.
