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SolarCity

Acquired by Tesla

Is this your company?

Working on SW attempting to solve the energy grid's most interesting and pressing problems. - Software Engineer SolarCity Employee Review

5.0
Mar 9, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The SW team is a high quality group of engineers... probably the best overall group I've come across in my career yet. There seems to be a mostly healthy work/life balance. Hard and intense work, but not too many crazy expectations or all-nighters. The best part is the set of problems we're working on: * SW to help a fleet of energy systems interact most optimally with the energy grid; * customer engagement tools to improve the adoption of solar across the country by lowering customer engagement costs; * system design and modeling tools * energy grid data analytics Overall, it's a pretty wide breadth of SW challenges in one company: web front-end, web back-end, control algorithms, cloud infrastructure, embedded systems, mobile apps. Mostly there are good SW dev processes in place: code reviews, unit testing, continuous integration to name a few. Finally, the company seems to have a pretty consistent business strategy. No random swings from one priority to the next and projects scrapped due to managerial whims as I've seen elsewhere.

Cons

Compensation is fair to good... but it's not Google, Apple, Facebook. And the quirky SW industry benefits which some of the big boys can offer (free food, laundry, haircuts, massage, etc) aren't to be found here. The SW dev practices are pretty good, but in some cases/teams/projects just being implemented. Always room for improvement there.

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Pros

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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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