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SolarCity

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High Pressured Environment, Revolving Door - Field Energy Consultant SolarCity Employee Review

3.0
May 29, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Nice People, Meaningful Work in Solar. Industry Good job for someone starting career and OK working long hours and weekends, for not great pay. Good for super residential salesman who's expert at closing homeowner contracts on one call. Good training programs. Good experience with fast paced high expectations sales. Have to give Senior management credit for Impressive growth.

Cons

Expect to work 6-7 days a week, 50-70 hours a week. While I was there they fired the local entire management staff, and kept hiring more and more sales staff making it harder and harder to make over 60K, and if you're not making that expect to get PIP'ed. Promised supplied leads and did not deliver due to changes. Change compensation plans, pricing, etc. with no warning. High turnover. Your work here is about sell, sell, sell, cost of acquisition and reducing it, very little focus on solar itself beyond that fact that more solar is better for the planet. Most people hired come from sales backgrounds other than solar. Very little opportunity for growth outside of CA. If you're looking to build a career to make 100K+ Residential solar is not a good choice. Large Solar Company's like SC have driven up hours and demands on salaried employees and driven down benefits and pay. Solar is not a great career for people who want to make good money and have a nice work/life balance.

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CEO approval
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Pros

Good pay and no supervision working at the different Home Depots

Cons

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4.0
Mar 22, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
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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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