Keyence reviews

3.7

66% would recommend to a friend

(1,554 total reviews)

Tetsuya Nakano

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67% positive business outlook

Keyence has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 1,554 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Keyence employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Manufacturing industry (3.5 stars).

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2K reviews
3.0
Aug 6, 2020

Don't work here

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

It's a good first job coming out of college It gets you the experience to break into sales and the compensation is nice

Cons

They will chew you up and spit you out. The company culture only cares about the bottom line. Your success strictly depends on your product line/territory and your relationship with your manager.

2.0
Jul 29, 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

good training, good territory, support is okay

Cons

bad management, long hours, sales are hard, products faulty

3.0
Jul 23, 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Good starting base salary. Great training program. Opportunity to oversee your own territory. sales calls 3 days a week get you out of the office.

Cons

The pay structure favors those that suck as sales - you make a decent base salary, however the commission rate is very low compared to other comparable hardware companies. So if you're good at sales and closing alot of deals, your commission does not linearly reflect that. It doesn't incentivize people to crush it like they'd like because the reward isnt necessarily there. Also if you want to move up the ranks by drinking the coolaid to be a manager babysitting people one day, this job is for you - if you pay your dos, show ethic, the company only hires from within so one day you'll likely eventually get there. However you are just a cog in the machine. Not a lot of opportunity to feel like you really have any influence in the way the company is run. This is a Japanese run company that makes the rules and you are rewarded for following them without deviating. So if you want a job where you feel you have alot of influence and are unique, this is probably not your place to make a lifelong career. If you want a career that pays pretty decent and is safe and secure and won't rock the boat much, welcome home.

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