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Keysight Technologies

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Overall Good Company, but needs significant improvement for employee retention - Inside Applications Engineer Keysight Technologies Employee Review

2.0
May 19, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

Working with bleeding edge technology was the fascination that initially attracted me to Keysight. And most of my coworkers were fantastic.

Cons

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.

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5.0
May 26, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Great support structure and office team.

Cons

Sometimes got home very late.

2.0
Jun 15, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

One star for the amazing people, one star for paycheck.

Cons

When I left, it took at least a month to decompress from the toxicity. KGM reorgs were a regular occurrence (5 in a 2-year span, for example) resulting in colleagues reappearing in roles in which they have no experience or disappearing all together. This created a culture of constant backstabbing and insecurity. Leadership picked favorites, ignoring the talents of many and this was reflective in bonuses. They undervalue and lose a lot of talented people, and it continues in spite of their recent positive quarterly reports. Reactionary marketing strategies result in a lot of wasted time and work. Read the rest of the reviews before taking on a role here. You will see a pattern.

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