Keyence reviews

3.7

66% would recommend to a friend

(1,552 total reviews)

Yu Nakata

67% approve of CEO

67% positive business outlook

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
5.0
Feb 6, 2016

Sales Engineer II

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Keyence is a classic meritocracy. You get back what you put in.

Cons

Consistent with anything you'd encounter with any sales job. You'll work hard if you're doing it right, and you won't get a ton of "atta boy's" from your manager, but you get paid an above average income. As long as you have the emotional capacity to leave your work at work and not take it home with you, the opportunities at Keyence are very solid that anybody should strive to be a part of. Alpha personalities do well. Beta personalities seem to get bitter, resentful, and whine about it on glassdoor.com.

2.0
Sep 18, 2018

Sales Engineer

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Decent incentive pay, great benefits, lots of training resources, management will help you

Cons

Hostile environment for LGBT community, office rhetoric outside of corporate is awful, frat like culture with little to no diversity, clunky and slow proprietary database software, way too many metrics to keep track of

2.0
Nov 13, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

-Good products -Great people to work with -Cool industry -Good training for your next job -Vacation has gotten better, still mediocre

Cons

-You're a drone. Keyence doesn't care about you. -Activity goals are unrealistic -You will be measured on the smallest things that at the end of the day do no not matter- phone calls? Really? The Keyence formula DOES NOT work 100% of the time. If we're selling with other paths, why force us to do something that doesn't work for us -Pay is better than 2 years ago, but is still an industry low, especially for the capital side. -Commission is a joke. Since you're paid on effect your 3% commission suddenly becomes 1% of total sale. Example - you sell 100k- Keyence claims effect is only 30k. so you only make 3% of 30k, which equals 1% of total sale. Then they say their industry low base pay makes up for it. No sorry that's not true. -Promotions are very slow and are usually given to the wrong people. There also is no consistency in promotions. -Mileage is lopsided, capital equipment and laser markers have to drive SUVs or trucks and don't get compensated for it. -Burnout is apart of the job, expect to be in another job within 2-3years -Japanese Culture aka work yourself to death because it's an honor to work for Keyence. Sorry guys, there is no honor to work for Keyence like in Japan. No one is coming out of college praying they can work for Keyence -No work life balance. They could care less if you working yourself to death -Vacation is Mediocre

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