Rakuten Full Stack Engineer interview experience: two-problem HackerRank test

About a week after I applied, I received a HackerRank programming-test invitation. It contained two programming problems, and passing the supplied test cases was the central requirement. It felt like a simple gateway rather than a long exchange with interviewers. The question was whether I could implement the answers correctly under the test conditions. I did not receive an offer, but the process…

Shared by a candidate · reported Jul 2026. Interview formats change; use it as a guide, not a script.