High pressure, great products, Micromanagement culture, limited senior growth opportunities - Anonymous employee Keyence Employee Review

3.0
Jul 9, 2010
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Excellent training, not just at the start Excellent products Cutting edge technologies Great to learn how sales should be done - good habits created

Cons

Micromanagement culture, they will kill you with their rules and policies and you will hate being under the magnifying glass Secretive product research and management, little sales interaction before product is released (in the US), to name a few Company discourages personal and business life to be separate and this creates a cold place to work, little true friends (not backstabbers and self centered egotistical stuck up college boys) Little room for an American to be in upper management due to the Japanese management philosophy

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Cons

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5.0
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Cons

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