Rakuten A global company with unique opportunities for engineers
Hiro Yoshioka, DU Rakuten Inc.
Rakuten is hiring engineers. J
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http://global.rakuten.com/corp/careers/engineering/new/
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Rakuten is hiring hackers. J
http://global.rakuten.com/corp/careers/engineering/new/
What is Rakuten?
No.1 E-commerce company in Japan Called “Rakuten Ichiba” http://www.rakuten.co.jp/
Nearly 30
%
Share of Japanese online retail market
Over 40,000
Number of Rakuten Ichiba merchants:
Over
\1trillion
Rakuten Ichiba and Book’s GMS surpassed *in October 2012
82 million
Number of Rakuten Ichiba merchants:
Unique Business model
Over 40
services
25 countries/
regions
\4 trillion
*Group consolidated
E-Commerce
Credit Card
Banking
Securities Telecom
Travel
E-Money Digital Goods
Portal & Content
Database
Loyalty Program
Log-In
Over 40
services
25 countries/
regions
\4 trillion
Unique Business model
*Group consolidated
E-Commerce eBook Travel Other Services & Businesses
Rakuten Institute of Technology Development Center Head Office / Regional Headquarters
Over 40
services
25 countries/
regions
\4 trillion
Unique Business model
*Group consolidated
32 68 99 181 456
1,298
2,033 2,139
2,499
2,983
3,461 3,799
4,435
0
500
1,000
1,500
2,000
2,500
3,000
3,500
4,000
4,500
5,000 (Million USD) Over
40 services
25 countries/
regions
\4 trillion
X135
Unique Business model
*Group consolidated
17 years ago, Rakuten was born with a big dream
1991 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12
Empowering People and Societies through the Internet
1997 Founded
2000 IPO(JASDAQ)
Our EC business model is very unique!
Rakuten Ichiba: Shop-centric
EC sites in US: Product-centric
2002 Launched “Pay-as-you-go programme“, “Rakuten Super Points”service
2006 Announced our vision “Rakuten ecosystem” ,which connects online and offline services.
We are making merchants and users happy
Support
2008 First E-Commerce Expansion Overseas
2011 Achieved over 1 trillion yen in gross transaction volume and 38,000 online shops
As result…
2012 Official Start of "English-nization"
Over 10,000 employees
2013 Brand Royalty
1. Rakuten Ichiba 2. Yahoo!Japan 3. Google 4. Amazon.co.jp 5. ECnavi 6. Kakaku.com 7. Youtube 8. Wikipedia 9. Suntory 10. KIRIN Beer
Researched by Nikkei BP consulting
Most supported Web site in Japan
Web Brand Research 2013
1. Salesforce 2. Alexion Pharmacy 3. Vmware 4. Regeneron Pharmaceuticals 5. ARM Holdings 6. Baidu 7. Amazon 8. Intuitive Surgical 9. Rakuten 10. Natura Cosmeticos
Innovation
Most Innovative Companies in the world
ranked by Forbes
World’s Most Innovative Companies
2013
Working in Rakuten as an engineer
Many
fields
Global Experience
E-commerce Online travel
Portal site Auction
Many
fields
Global Experience
E-banking Credit card
e-money Securities
Many
fields
Global Experience
WiFi IP Phone(app)
Payment Coupon
Many
fields
Global Experience
Web research Solar Panel
Insurance
Horse racing
toto
Many
fields
Global Experience
eBook
Digital Contents
Logistics
Video streaming
and so on
Many
fields
Global Experience
No.1 baseball team Many
fields
Global Experience
“English-nization” Changed our all internal language into English
Case Study of Harvard Business School
Many
fields
Global Experience
China, 98
India, 49 Korea, 26
US, 18
Vietnam, 12
Canada, 7
Australia, 6 Thai, 5
Norway, 5 Indonesia, 4
Sweden, 4 Malaysia, 4 UK, 3
Singapore, 2
Others, 46
NON-JP 25% JP
75%
*As of end of July/2013
1,400 engineers
Globalization
Many
fields
Global Experience
NON-JP 66%
JP 34%
FY14 new grads,79
Where Mid-career Engineers Came From
Many
fields
Global Experience
previous company Google Amazon Microsoft
Yahoo Apple GREE
NHN Japan Accenture
Wipro HUAWEI
Nokia
Rapid Expansion
2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013
*Invest
Many
fields
Global Experience
Learning Opportunities
Development camp at SF with foreign engineers
Global experience program
Pics of study session
Learning Opportunities
Study Sessions (very often)
Overseas Conference (1 time/year)
Learning Opportunities
Hackathon
Engineers in Rakuten
Career Steps for Engineers
Years
Infra Eng App Eng
3
5~7
Project Mgr
Product Mgr
Top Eng Architect Infra
Specialist
Org Mgr
Various technologies in a wide range of services
We’d like to work with people who…
- are technology lovers
- have creativity, ambition and skills to change the world
- want to empower various lifestyles love your service, love your customers
Be a hacker. Make the world a better place. J
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