Keysight Technologies reviews

Multiple projects with competing priorities. Engineers expected to support and develop at same time for multiple products. Workload not sustainable. Pay below market rates and by companies own admission in compensation ratio. Team expected to give 200% effort doesn’t match compensation. Working with distributed teams means late nights or early mornings or both on the same day. Junior heavy teams with hiring being done nearly exclusively from campus hires. Taking advantage of young career workers who don’t know any better, only room for growth is that of increasing burnout. Exodus of experienced team members. Cheap short term thinking at the expense of staff, career growth, and compensation. Do not be an engineer in the IT organization here.

Keysight needs to revisit their budgets and training regimen to allow technical support Engineers to do their job. For several years I was asked to support a current product line, but all of the bench equipment was one-to-two generations behind and some were operationally failing. How was I supposed to help my customers using current instruments, when none were available to me? I made my immediate manager aware on numerous occasions of the latter key concerns and my pleas fell on deaf ears. Additionally, I was not allotted time during my work day for practical bench measurements. The expectation was for me to work a full day and then self-train on obsolete and failing equipment. Where was the work-life balance and support; an impossible situation? Also, I was given no formal training i.e. focused formal lecture and lab time away from regular job duties; the norm in the past. I know because I was there long enough to talk with an SME Engineers. After the constant job metrics/evaluation beatings that I took for over (2) years because of management's intransigence, I resigned for the sake of my physical and mental well being. Keysight management treats its engineers as commodities to be discarded at their whim.