Filled with liars and money - Solar Sales Representative Sunrun Employee Review

2.0
Mar 11, 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

You have the potential to make a lot of money on commissions. I've met several people who have made over $1m in a year. More realistically, $100-300k a year if you put in time without even really honing your craft. The product is a really great product. The consumer really saves money with the Purchase Power Agreement with the only drawback being that they have solar panels on their roof now. You can sell the product knowing you're helping the customer.

Cons

They lie often. The staff tries to jump around your questions when you confront them on lies and split hairs about moral and ethical decisions and actions. If they purposely mislead employees and customers then they are flat out lying. The $4,000 bonus when entering the company, the $350 ipad purchase reimbursement (they require you to own an iPad and they claim other operating systems do not work with their sales system), and the $150 phone reimbursement are all lies. You CAN receive $4,000 over your first 8 weeks of you meet certain milestones, but it is not a bonus and that money "includes" the reimbursement. The sales managers teach sales representatives to mislead customers. At least one manager takes candid photos of customers without their knowledge to use for "training" purposes in classes with representatives and laughs at these customers openly. Almost all the sales tactics they teach are unethical. They openly encourage you to use half-truths in sales pitches and to manipulate customers.

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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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