Keyence reviews

It's like Company Culture and Management are competing to see who's more toxic and Work-Life Balance is winning. Get ready to be micromanaged, underappreciated, and overworked. You'll have no amicable relationship with any of your coworkers; you won't even know the employees who may work 10 feet away from you because they're in a different department, so you'll just never ever speak to them. And if you do try to strike a conversation in the breakroom, in the hallway, in the elevator, you'll be met with scorn and silence. Get ready to be given vague open-ended tasks and then immediately chastised when it isn't what the person wanted. You can expect an intensive Japanese corporate work culture, which informs a lot of the general lack of work-life balance, the *expectation* to work overtime, the pathological strictness, the general attitude of your coworkers, the eerie pin drop silence of basically every floor in the building, EXCEPT FOR the employees straight from Japan, who are unprofessionally loud and obnoxious all the time, borderline inept at their job function, do literally whatever they want, and basically get away with everything you yourself would be immediately reprimanded for. And I swear, it felt like I was being punished any time I would choose to work from home. I would never receive the amount of unscheduled out-of-the-blue teams calls MULTIPLE TIMES A DAY in office vs when I worked from home. Seriously, is there any evidence this anxiety inducing, depressing, and mind-numbing company culture actually does anything for productivity? Would it somehow grind the operations of this company to a halt to have generally happy employees? Or is that what the healthcare package is there for: to cover the therapy you'll need because of this place.

The expectation is that you will be the richest among all of your friends. They’ll pump your head full of this mantra and it’s simply. Not. True. If it is, you need to surround yourself with better friends. Keyence is not highly regarded among people in the industry. You will have a ton of unhappy people you run into on a regular basis due to the fact Keyence has been calling them for years on end. You will find yourself going above and beyond for people just to get stepped on and treated like a piece of equipment. My best advice is to take the job but don’t stay any longer than 2/3 years max. Companies pay A LOT for your experience and Keyence will be a stepping stone. To start you’ll be making cold calls- a lot a lot a lot of cold calls. This does not stop until you reach director which is pretty much impossible. You will either have a multiple state territory which will lead to a ton of overnight travel you have to pay for out of pocket and it will take weeks to get reimbursed, or you will have a small territory where hitting goal is really hard to achieve. The pay as you grow in your professional career becomes more and more mid. You’ll start to notice the bonuses are really not as good as they say they are when you start. You’ll also start to notice the travel will really start to take its toll and you spend more time trying to hit metrics than you do actually selling. This company is metrics driven at the expense of its employees. Your best bet is to really grind it out and get promoted really quick to manager and then ride it out. If you get stuck at SSE you will never become at director unless all of the stars align and a lot of people quit. This is not a forever company. The people at the top got in really early, they were in the best territory with the best product line, or they switched to a new product line with less competition. It is really really rare to get to director in the same product line you start in unless you are super lucky. Management really is hit or miss. You could have a really really really bad manager or a guy who’s super cool but is not a manager that will help you get promoted. You will either drink the Koolaid or you won’t and they’ll pick up on it. They promote who they like when it really comes down to it. I’ve seen people in my office out preform others in their division be #1 in sales and #3 in metrics- they didn’t get promoted because the director said they weren’t “ready”.