Talented colleagues hindered by poor management and culture - Director of Digital Marketing Sunrun Employee Review

2.0
Jul 9, 2026
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Pros

The people at the individual-contributor and mid-management level are genuinely talented and supportive, some of the best colleagues I've worked with. The scope is real: I managed eight figures of media across owned and third-party channels, which is rare experience for a digital role. Compensation and benefits are competitive (including ESPP), leave policies were honored, for the most part, when my family needed them, and it feels good to work on clean energy for a recognizable brand.

Cons

I want to be specific because I'd urge anyone considering a digital marketing director or principal-level role here to go in with eyes open. Management is the problem. After a reorg, my team was moved under new senior leadership and everything changed. In my experience, decisions were driven by personal relationships rather than performance: outside agencies with personal connections to leadership were brought in over my objections and handed large budgets, work was audited and re-assigned behind the scenes, and when I raised conflict-of-interest concerns through the proper channels (finance and procurement), I believe it was held against me. Feedback is punished, not heard. When my entire team gave honest negative feedback in the company's "anonymous" pulse survey, the results were effectively de-anonymized, shared back at us, and met with comments that people with "bad attitudes" should "see themselves out." My former manager, one of the best leaders I had there, quit rather than keep working in that environment, and described a "boys club" culture that others echoed. Most of my team was actively job searching by the time I left. Digital is expendable. Digital marketing drives a low single-digit share of revenue next to door-to-door sales, and leadership treats it accordingly. Expect constantly moving goalposts (our efficiency targets were cut by more than half in a single year without a strategy to match), rejected tool requests, broken procurement that leaves vendors unpaid, spend cuts and paused markets, and persistent job insecurity. Strategy focused on squeezing lead costs rather than fixing conversion, and pointing that out was not welcome. Work-life balance is heading the wrong way. Return-to-office mandates escalated toward five days a week in an Utah office, even though most of the business is elsewhere, which is hard on anyone with family responsibilities, and it creates an echo chamber. The industry headwinds (tax credit changes, stock pressure, layoffs) aren't management's fault, but how leadership responded to them — politics, blame, and retaliation instead of strategy is why I'd tell candidates for senior digital roles to be very careful here.

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5.0
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Pros

Flexibility In Terms Of Taking Time Off, clocking in/out Great Base Salary, Especially For A Sales Job Friendly Manager and Team

Cons

Poor Communication Lengthy Unnecessary Training Unrealistic Sales Goals No Employment Guarantees They started cutting hours when sales quota wasn't met

1.0
Jul 6, 2026
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Pros

Pay per hour isn’t bad and you just kind of walk around the store and no one from the company will really check up on you besides whoever else is scheduled with you

Cons

Such a disorganized company. The stores you get sent too is based on your address I had put a different home address for personal reasons and explained I actually lived somewhere else said they’d made accommodations, they lied and didn’t even though they could’ve. They change their standards whenever they want I got fired because of a requirement they changed mid employment, I was making the requirements that was told to me when I first got hired but after a month they decided to change it and let me go the same day because I “wasn’t meeting that requirement” when it literally was just made up. So many pointless meetings everyday where they just repeat the same stuff everyday. The only successful people at this position are people who constantly harass customers in the store and so many people would get banned from certain stores due to complaints but the company will not punish them or anything if anything they almost encourage this behavior. Do not work for this company they’re a scam. They say they offer a “rate reduction” program to homeowners but it isn’t, they just want to get people trapped in a long contract for years that they just keep raising prices. They are not an honest company. The hours are terrible it is mandatory that you work every weekend and they make it a huge deal if you try to take it out saying you can get written up for it.

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