AVOID - Anonymous employee Sunrun Employee Review

1.0
Nov 21, 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

People are cool. Sometimes they give free food. Location is near public transportation, in downtown Denver.

Cons

They lay off people every other month. They operate on an environment of fear: they make you feel like if you don't pump out enough work, you'll be laid off too. Promotions are highly unlikely because you are competing with nearly a hundred other engineers. They stopped their drafting business with a company located in India, moved the work in-house, expected nearly the same output. So they have ridiculous expectations that 80% of the department isn't close to reaching. They want to cut costs, yet their non-innovative CEO is getting paid upwards of $14mil every year. Maybe she should cut her salary instead. Everything we use is made by Tesla or SolarCity. This company has no innovation or proprietary work that they can actually put their name on. Counting down the days until this place goes bankrupt OR I get laid off. Check out their investor relations report, where they outline the enormous amount of debt they'll never be able to pay off with the executive team taking huge chunks of cash whenever the stock goes up and the CEO getting an inflated salary while her lowly workers worry about if they'll have a job the next week.

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5.0
Jun 9, 2026
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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
Recommend
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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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