Rakuten Interview Questions

IQ Team
Written by IQ Team
Jay Feng
Reviewed by Jay Feng
Published March 27, 2026
Estimated reading time: 5 minutes

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Rakuten Interview Questions

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QuestionTopicDifficulty
Statistics
Medium

What are the assumptions of linear regression?

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Machine Learning
Easy
Machine Learning
Hard
SQL
Easy
Machine Learning
Medium
Statistics
Medium
SQL
Hard
Machine Learning
Medium
Python
Easy
Deep Learning
Hard
SQL
Medium
Statistics
Easy
Machine Learning
Hard

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Rakuten Salaries by Position

Business Analyst*
$250K
Business Analyst
Median: $250K
Mean (Average): $250K
Data points: 1
AI Research Scientist
$83K
$154K
AI Research Scientist
Median: $123K
Mean (Average): $121K
Data points: 12
ML Engineer*
$76K
$164K
ML Engineer
Median: $125K
Mean (Average): $121K
Data points: 3
Data Scientist
$45K
$164K
Data Scientist
Median: $125K
Mean (Average): $119K
Data points: 10
Data Engineer
$55K
$170K
Data Engineer
Median: $120K
Mean (Average): $115K
Data points: 7
Software Engineer
$51K
$170K
Software Engineer
Median: $117K
Mean (Average): $111K
Data points: 26
Business Intelligence*
$105K
Business Intelligence
Median: $105K
Mean (Average): $105K
Data points: 1
Base salary
Median
Mean (Average)
* = Low confidence (less than 5 data points)

Most data science positions fall under different position titles depending on the actual role.

From the graph we can see that on average the Business Analyst role pays the most with a $250,000 base salary while the Business Intelligence role on average pays the least with a $105,000 base salary.

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