First Solar reviews

3.7

70% would recommend to a friend

(683 total reviews)
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Mark Widmar

86% approve of CEO

62% positive business outlook

First Solar has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 683 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The First Solar employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Manufacturing industry (3.5 stars).

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683 reviews
3.0
Mar 18, 2017

project engineer

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

good salary, good benefits, good industry

Cons

Tier 1 management doesn't always have a bead on who the best performers are and who the imposters are. Good employees usually get shuffled (since they are usually engaged and working hard), while the imposters spend a good deal of time trying to impress the Tier 1 team with misrepresentations of their activities while promoting themselves. This condition makes it impossible for the company to make the transition to next level.

4.0
Mar 13, 2017

Good Company

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Very innovative and good compensation with work and personal life balance

Cons

Politics and wide variation in policies for individual promotion and growth

2.0
Feb 16, 2017

Engineer

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Good pay and cooperative employees

Cons

In continuously dropping prices of solar panels, management does not a clear pathway

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