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Keysight Technologies

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Get Excited About Adding Shareholder Value! - Anonymous employee Keysight Technologies Employee Review

3.0
19 Jun 2017
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Your coworkers will be pleasant, capable and professional. Your manager will, in most cases, also be pleasant, capable and professional. Your requirements and timelines will be reasonable, or as close to that as can be expected at a tech company. You will always work on real projects that ship to customers. You will have reasonable work/life balance. Many of your coworkers will be quite knowledgeable so you can learn a lot from them.

Cons

You will not care about the things you work on. Outside of a few very specialized hardware design roles, you will not innovate. You will constantly be reminded through white-bread internal corporate PR emails about your responsibility to add shareholder value. You will kick and scream dealing with an IT organization straight out of 1997 that will excel only at wasting your time and infuriating you. You will not have an opportunity to advance your career because your manager, their manager, their manager and the 7 managers above them have all been with the company for 20+ years and aren't going anywhere. If you do happen to work with someone who doesn't do good work or isn't a good fit for the role, tough luck because no one is ever let go for performance reasons. You will make a below-average wage for your field and level of experience. You will likely work in a facility that hasn't been updated in decades.

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Pros

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Cons

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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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