PSA TO ANYONE CONSIDERING WORKING HERE - Recensione dipendente - Sales Engineer presso Keyence

Let me make this simple. I speak for a vast majority of this company when I say: -There is a reason there is such a high and consistent turnover rate here. That isn’t normal. You will be put through HELL. 12+ hour days are typical. -EXTREME micro management. You will be treated like a child and managers/trainers are your parents. Your calls, call minutes, demos, and even meetings will be nit picked. Expect calls from your manager before/after business hours, having to explain every detail of calls you had with customers and let them rip into you. Expect extremely unprofessional/borderline harassment when it comes to “managing styles”. (This can of course vary by division, state, etc. but VERY common.) -ZERO work/life balance. 9 times out of 10 you will be given a territory that is a different state or states, or the middle of nowhere 2-4 hours from your home. You’re expected to be there 3 days a week with 1 day in office. Good luck scheduling appointments/having time to take care of yourself or your family. -“Sleep is for the weak” mentalities everywhere. They praise working crazy hours and everyone who has been here a long time is severely depressed. I’m all for working hard, and putting in effort especially if you know what sales is about, but this place is truly unethical with workload and expectations. -The ONLY thing they flex here is money and how “rare” it is to be paid well. It’s so bizzare and embarrassing as sales directors will tell new hires they love this job because they “make more money than their friends”. They bring it up in every chance they can get. I guess no one here has heard of medical device sales or your average insect repellent sales. The money here is insanely average for sales and LOW for the workload. It’s only above average for a first year position. -Their recruiting game is obvious. They go after post-college grads because the entry level pay IS above average for 22 year olds looking for their first job. They’re then manipulated into thinking they’ll never do as well anywhere else. It’s sad. -The pipeline here isn’t real. You go up in levels as a sales engineer until you hit manager. This takes forever and if there’s no spots open good luck. Also, you do the SAME EXACT JOB AS YOUR MANAGER. Managers who have been here 10+ years are cold calling, begging to get into places, selling, troubleshooting, everything they did on day one as a new employee, just managing on top of that. You will do the same job basically forever. Never heard of a company like that. -ZERO company culture. Typical depressing aesthetic here. The most “culture” you’ll get here is a PowerPoint on how amazing the company is and a happy hour at your local tap house once every 2 months. Oh and maybe a store bought cake for someone’s bday in the lunch room. That’s about it. The ONLY thing people here talk about is work. Like it’s their whole life, because it is. -you don’t make commission here. Just bonuses based on your ranking. So we’ll go ahead and slave our lives away selling 1M in product for you a year so we can get about $30k in bonus. This isn’t real sales. -Top performers here are rewarded with more work and OCCASIONAL pay raise. It’s really easy to move up early on but then it plateaus. -they lie and say they don’t lay off anyone here but keyence and I both know that’s not true. Hard working employees hitting numbers put on PIPs left and right for no reason. -there are NO perks besides basic benefits of healthcare/dental care. No presidents club for top performers, no referral bonuses, nothing. Look the overall message here is if you want to get into sales and you’re a hard worker/don’t mind a grind there are HUNDREDS of better companies out there to work for that provide just as intense training, and are highly reputable, have amazing products, but actually value their employees and PAY THEM WELL. Don’t let these people manipulate you into thinking they pay their employees “a lot”. Go work for a company who will send you and a plus one to Hawaii for hitting top numbers, not one who will double your goal so you don’t get paid as much the next year, and give you $150 after taxes for “sales person of the year” There are places that have culture, and respect a work/life balance and treat you like an adult. This place ain’t it.