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
3.0
Dec 18, 2021
Recommend
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Pros

-Pay is good to above average for fresh out of college. -if you are coming into this role with previous sales experience its pretty average to below average from the offers i have been seeing. -you will be tracked on everything. Almost to the point where the data aspect of your job becomes more important than the sales side of it. - this is an amazing job to get into and learn more about sales if you are starting fresh.

Cons

-Please up the salary. we have be asking for over 2 years. we have seen nothing but double digit growth since pre covid. -all you are doing by not upping the salary is forcing your best employees to look elsewhere. which then puts double the workload on your other employees, which makes them want to quit, and the cycle continues. -Please get away from the "more activity= more sales" it is just factually incorrect and you are just driving your works to quit.

3.0
Jul 23, 2020
Recommend
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Pros

Good starting base salary. Great training program. Opportunity to oversee your own territory. sales calls 3 days a week get you out of the office.

Cons

The pay structure favors those that suck as sales - you make a decent base salary, however the commission rate is very low compared to other comparable hardware companies. So if you're good at sales and closing alot of deals, your commission does not linearly reflect that. It doesn't incentivize people to crush it like they'd like because the reward isnt necessarily there. Also if you want to move up the ranks by drinking the coolaid to be a manager babysitting people one day, this job is for you - if you pay your dos, show ethic, the company only hires from within so one day you'll likely eventually get there. However you are just a cog in the machine. Not a lot of opportunity to feel like you really have any influence in the way the company is run. This is a Japanese run company that makes the rules and you are rewarded for following them without deviating. So if you want a job where you feel you have alot of influence and are unique, this is probably not your place to make a lifelong career. If you want a career that pays pretty decent and is safe and secure and won't rock the boat much, welcome home.

5.0
May 8, 2018

Sales Engineer

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

money is good right out of college

Cons

work life balance is poor

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