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      Keyence

      Engaged Employer

      Keyence reviews

      3.7

      66% would recommend to a friend

      (1,552 total reviews)

      Yu Nakata

      67% approve of CEO

      67% positive business outlook

      Ratings by category

      4.0

      Compensation and benefits

      3.9

      Career opportunities

      3.3

      Culture & values

      3.3

      Diversity & inclusion

      3.2

      Senior management

      2.7

      Work/Life balance

      Keyence has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 1,552 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
      2.0
      Jul 15, 2014

      Sales Engineer

      Sales engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Was my second job out of college. The pay was better then my first job.

      Cons

      Japanese work environment. If your manager is not Japanese then he is not your real manager with no real power in the organization. They micro manage everything and expect you to hit many intangible goals besides your numbers. If you hit all your goals its like an 80hr work week. Overall bad experience….job was way more stressful then at other companies that not only pay better but have much better culture and balance and even that’s not saying much but Keyence is that awful.

      4.0
      Jun 21, 2014

      Great products, good people, improving management, very organized.

      Asm (area sales manager)
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      There are a lot of things that Keyence does right, and if you like a structured work environment, you'll do well here. They have excellent products and spend a ton of money on R&D, always coming out with industry-leading technologies. It makes it very easy to sell when you have great products. Additionally, Keyence has a lot of excellent internal systems. Shipping and repair are well run and customer service and credit are excellent. Training is excellent, and salespeople have an extremely large safety net for the first few years, meaning you have to really screw up to get fired. Even if you can't sell, they'll keep you around and keep trying to train you as long as you're working hard. Pay is good - 75th percentile of technical sales jobs.

      Cons

      Sales-related activities are all tracked and measured, and the expectations for activity are very high. These do not diminish as experience is gained, leading to burnout after a few years. Most salespeople stay 2-3 years because once they learn how to sell, other companies offer them a better lifestyle, even if it's similar pay, and people leave. For years, it seemed like employees were regarded as cogs in a wheel, and even if that has improved over the years in most ways, the fact that management won't adjust their incentive systems to recognize that not all employees sell in the same way and that sales calls are still a major part of compensation is damaging.

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