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SolarCity

Acquired by Tesla

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Mediocre inside sales. Over glorified by recruiters. Rag tag wolf of wallstreet. - Inside Sales Specialist SolarCity Employee Review

2.0
Jun 21, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

The best outcome from working here were the connections I made with some colleagues and some customers. The experience in managing a project from origination to post install was good.

Cons

Practically a High school environment. The recruiting team did an amazing job of over exaggerating the pay. Along with hiring some of the shadiest, and poorly educated folks off the street. Expect homogenized pay. Low salary, plus he lowest commission structure in the industry compared to competing companies. Old boy club/ clique drama. Envision a modern day boiler room/wolf of wall street. Jam packed with painkiller addicts, snitches too as a matter of fact. Coke and adderal junkies. Even a fist fight at the local bar. Sure, the small gestures of fun events gently numb the vicious metric requirements. Lack of customer and employee experience. Lack of critically thinking sales reps, that make the right suggestions for customers. Saddening to look back at fellow friends still stuck there.

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Pros

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Cons

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4.0
Mar 22, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

Just to quantify my review a bit, I am within the top 10% of inside sales reps within our 12,000 person company. It is a great place to work and people doing well ARE able to make good money here. The executive team ALWAYS has a platform for reps to help make SolarCity a better place every quarter. They involve the top 20 reps each quarter in various ways to help their peers through an interactive group called Team Elite. Executives, VP's, Directors, and Managers are always willing to help and go to bat when there are issues with things that need to be fixed. The direction of the company is consistent and although the company is large, decision makers work as hard as possible to steer the big ship quickly when necessary.

Cons

Knee jerk reactions with decision making at a director level create issues from time to time. Culture has had its ups and downs due to HUGE growth last year and subsequent high attrition rates.

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