Rakuten Front End Engineer interview questions

The company’s official language is English. They told me the interview would be in Japanese and I told them to withdraw me from the process as I currently speak only very basic Japanese. They responded to say the interview would be conducted in English. The interview was conducted in Japanese. The three interviewers asked me a series of technical and behavioural questions. In response I told them my dog’s name, my favourite flavour of ice cream and asked directions to the swimming pool. I worry someone’s time may have been wasted, there…