Keyence reviews

3.7

66% would recommend to a friend

(1,552 total reviews)

Tetsuya Nakano

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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
2.0
Apr 13, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

Pay rate is okay along with benefits

Cons

- Smaller departments favor particular people while others are set up for failure. - there are people in charge in the smaller departments who have been friends for long time. With this, there are unchecked powers that do what they want, initialize their own reporting and use them as they see fit - Micromanagement from some of the newer 'managers' who clearly have no idea how to use people skills , delegate duties or show common respect - You're a hero one week at this place and the next week, you are blacklisted - While on sales calls, I consistently ran into issues with my Iphone which I got no help from IT department (santiago?) never returned calls and I opened 3 tickets involving same issue with no resolve. I ended up using my own cell

5.0
Dec 22, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

- On average you have a relatively high level of autonomy in how you manage your territory. - The company is run extremely lean so there isn't a lot of red tape and corporate inefficiencies to trudge through - They only promote internally, so virtually every person up to the COO started in the same spot and has grounded expectations as a result - Most managers are open to working with you to find your niche, so it is realistic to transfer to different locations or roles once your proven yourself

Cons

- a lot of the territories are quite large requiring a substantial amount of drive time and hotel stays, so burn out is a genuine concern - Most divisions require substantial phone time to book appointments. The conversion rate to scheduled meetings is unsurprisingly low which makes this a challenging weekly task - Since we only fill positions when there is a large ROI justification, we are a bit light on the support roles and the sales people often have to take on the brunt of technical support.

4.0
Oct 8, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

Make your own schedule during the week, drive around to appointments doing your own thing. Good pay if you hit sales goal, expect about 85-90k total your second full year if you can do it.

Cons

Your life is now metrics, you have numbers to hit and they're not easy. Beyond that every number is broken down into sub categories so you can see how well you're achieving said numbers. These then influence everything your managers are going to tell you. I.E.: you need to meet with customers x times per month (30-40) and of those meeting you need a certain amount at the right companies with multiple people at each. It's a good job for a young person, lots of money and job security since they spend about 100k on training you + getting your equipment. Good springboard into better sales jobs down the road.

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