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SolarCity

Acquired by Tesla

Is this your company?

Feel good. Feel Challenged. - Software Engineer SolarCity Employee Review

5.0
May 18, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Everyday I wake up knowing I will help someone switch to solar energy. I'm fortunate and proud to have that feeling everyday. I'm not sugar coating when I say SolarCity is giving the world a fighting chance to solve global warming. SolarCity is becoming more vertically integrated. Even as a software developer, I have so many opportunities in the technology stack and across domain like process management, geo, grid management, finance.

Cons

When the company doubles all its metrics every year we have to solve problems that have not been solved before by the company or anyone else. Things move at break neck pace. I could have put this in the pros section too. Decisions are made very quickly which means you will get unblocked quickly. This also means you may get work with very short deadlines to unblock someone else.

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Pros

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Cons

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4.0
Mar 22, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

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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