Keyence reviews

* Visiting many of the biggest and coolest companies in your territory is a firsthand look at everything Keyence isn't. * No perks, benefits or stock options. * No company car, you'll put 15-25k miles on yours per year (except select countries in Europe where it's required by law). * Monday and Friday are call center days, the expectation will be 60-100 calls per day. This is to fill up your week with the required 7-14 on-site meetings. * Beyond reasonable metric tracking. * Compared to the "industrial automation" industry, the pay is OK. Compared to the high tech, capital, or software sales industries, the pay is below average. * The lack of perks (none) is embarrassing. * Most top talent leaves the company 3-5 years after starting. Even top sellers in the best territories will routinely leave around this time. * You will literally have the same job for the first 4-6 years, selling your product in a given territory. 730am-5pm office days with 30-60+ self-generated onsite meetings per month, year after year. The first few rungs of management are the same job, with a few extra mentoring meetings mixed in each week. Move beyond that, and you can expect full-time office work.

It is much, much more cold calling than they make it out to be. 40% of your time is required to be at the office making calls from 7:30 to 5:00 on the dot with a few team and manager meetings thrown in. They micromanage every move you make, with call count performance reviewed every office day. The metrics you’re evaluated on are extremely hard to follow, and a lot are completely pointless; this leads to 99% of reps fudging their data. You won’t have a voice at all, and since the company is so data-driven it is easy for management to focus and harp on all of the ways you’re failing, and overlook the ways you’re succeeding. The mentality they have doesn’t label good performance as success, but more so fulfilling what’s expected, “now do that again and even better next month”. Easy to see why we are known for fast employee turnover. You’re definitely replaceable here, and burnout is unavoidable.