Rakuten Data Engineer interview questions

Very casual meeting with nice interviewers who transmitted familiarity and made me feel very comfortable. First we described our backgrounds and I had to talk about my cs degree, projects, previous job and then a cool cs problem took place and I had to solve it while explaining it to the interviewer on a notebook so they could check my algorithms skills. They explained very well what the were looking for. I enjoyed every minute of the interview, casual without losing formality.

Recruiter reached out to me on LinkedIn, scheduled a phone screening. We discussed my experience and the job description briefly at which point she began asking about my salary history. I gave a salary range I am expecting and said we can discuss salary when we both think I'm a good fit. The recruiter asked several more times for my salary history then said it was REQUIRED for an application. No employer that respects their talent would require this, so I thanked her for her time and asked her to contact me when the policy was changed.