Vantaggi
Pay is very nice out of college, you have an opportunity to get out of a cubicle, and it's a Japanese company so they believe in investing in their employees. You can easily get a job if you're not a complete idiot. The recruiter literally holds your hand through the whole process. Then once you get in, the training is for a couple months and will teach you everything you need to know about the product.
Svantaggi
You're expected to show up to the office at 7:30am (actually 6:45 or you're late) and then you have to try and not act like a zombie all day because you were either in the office all night last night or you just got in at 3am from yesterday's sales call. It doesn't matter here; you're not human and you don't need sleep to function. You will become a highly medicated, alcoholic drone to get through the demands of this job. And I'm not talking about mental demands. They basically turn you into a sales robot so you have to be an idiot to not do well at this job... I am talking physical demands. You will just destroy your health and relationships with this job. And this is probably why they can only hire people in their 20s. If you decide to take a job as a sales engineer; you will probably here "The Keyence 20" referring to something along the lines of a "Freshman 15" in college. And yea that's right. PEOPLE GAIN ON AVERAGE 20 POUNDS THEIR FIRST 6 MONTHS. They will all laugh about it. And yea, I guess it's funny that I thought my 30 year old manager was in his mid to upper 40s. You are all slowly killing yourselves and not allowing any potential for a work-life balance. Moreover; you have to carry a 70 pound case of products every where you go. And you're expected to go into ANY industrial plant that will say yes to even a 5 minute meeting just so you stop calling them. A lot of these plants are in terrible areas and don't even get me started on when you go inside. Be prepared to constantly be worried about your personal safety (1. from just being in the city where the plant resides and 2. from the factory conditions). If you're a female, be expected to be preyed on by disgusting factory workers. They hire people just to micromanage you... which is not annoying at all and demonstrates such efficient use of the company's money!! This is not a fun job. And sales can be fun if you get with the right company. Just leave this job for the people who don't have anything better to do then to sit around and cold call 120 people a day (did I mention that's a requirement?), and to drive/fly 3 hours to a sales call to someone who will never buy anything from you and just wants you to stop calling- THEN get home at 3 am and do it all over again. For the rest of your life....All that money doesn't sound so good when you literally have zero time to enjoy it, right? Trust me. You can do better. Or better yet, take their academy style training and leave right after to go to a competitor that will let you work from home and will give you a higher base salary.