Pluspunten
Like every other review will tell you, it's the money. The money isn't amazing per se, but 95% of new hires are fresh out of college where ~60k+ your first year seems like the lottery. Good entry level job to build your resume and get basic sales experience. The people, actually very very cool to work with. There's a sense you're all in this painful ride together.
Minpunten
Ironically, the money is why most people don't leave sooner. It takes a few years for recruiters to start really going after you, so for most new hires with staggering student debt in a destroyed entry level job market, Keyence feels like a life raft. You don't really want to be there, but you don't really have a choice. The activity system will burn you out. No matter if you live in a dense multi-million person metropolitan area, or Iowa, you're expected to hit the same metrics. For some divisions that literally means 60+ sales calls a month. That's right, 60 meetings every single month. As you're required to be in on Monday + Friday, expect to have 6-8 meetings A DAY Tues-Thurs. In remote territories you can tack on 1-5 hours of driving after your sales calls too. Speaking of all that driving, Keyence remains one of the very few large outside sales firms to not offer a vehicle. If you plan on having a nice car, you'll be underwater on it in no time. In my first year and a half I put 50k miles on my car, and that was in a territory not considered a "traveling" territory. Monday Friday is call center day. How else are you going to book your 8-15 meetings for that week? Want to take some vacation? No problem! You still need to hit not only your sales goal, but activity goals as well. In your review every quarter if you don't hit these numbers, it will affect you, and you will not get promoted. Your manager will tell you to make up the gap next month when you're not taking vacation, so if you thought 40-60 meetings a month was tough buckle up.