Good products, Bad management - Anonymous employee Kyocera Employee Review

1.0
Feb 7, 2023
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

As with most companies the rank and file folks are very good to work with but the leadership is horrible.

Cons

Very weak leadership team who all cower in fear of the dictator President/CEO. This fear leads to no direction or decisions and slows any progress. If you are unfortunate enough to have to deal directly with the President/CEO then you better dot every I and cross every T because even something as trivial as a misspelled word will send him on a tirade where you will be berated, publicly. And don't you dare defend yourself because you will be gone within weeks after that. Beyond that there is no upward mobility. They always look to outside first rather than promoting from within. I saw they several times in my tenure, from Marketing and other departments. Finally, the pay is below industry average.

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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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