Not worth the trouble - Design Engineer Kyocera Employee Review

2.0
Jun 4, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Tight control (but not really micromanagement) from management really pushed me to improve myself both professionally and personally.

Cons

My personal manager was incredibly small minded and thought himself better than most because he went to some prestigious school in Japan that I had never heard of. Expect to work from 7:30am to midnight at least 5 days a week, most Sunday's included another 2-4hrs of work. Each Kyocera company is purposefully not sharing information/R&D/clients with each other due to sever silo-like competition between each subsidiary company - such that KICC would rather loose a potential client that it could not produce for rather than pass them on to another branch (such as KAI) who could have completed the client's request.

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Pros

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Cons

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2.0
Jul 5, 2026
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Pros

Paychecks come on time, they have a decent rep in the ceramic packaging world. I worked with some wonderful people.

Cons

This is not a sales job, your are managing accounts with no incentive. QA issues non stop, legal issues, payment, anything and everything comes back on "sales". Every day was a new fire that always felt like preparing for a deposition where each employee starts pointing fingers at one another. Horrible moral. Depends heavily on your direct management. I'll just say that I had emailed some of the issues i was having to my manager (something I've never had to do my entire career) and nothing changed, except that they had logged into my email and deleted it so there was no record. It was not a good situation.

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