First Solar reviews

3.7

70% would recommend to a friend

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Mark Widmar

86% approve of CEO

62% positive business outlook

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2.0
Sep 3, 2014

Roller coaster

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Decent pay and benefits. Safety conscious. Physical work environment is very nice. Some management is flexible with work life balance. Good place for self minded individuals.

Cons

Constant change in leadership at the top has detracted from what could be a great company. The culture is very cutthroat, so pick your battles very carefully. Very young company with great upside if senior leadership can provide a long term strategy and stick with it.

1.0
Aug 4, 2014

This was once a great place to work

Anonymous employee
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Pros

The early days saw great compensation and benefit packages. People enjoyed their work and you didn't mind the long hours and frequent travel. The work was interesting and exciting In the beginning. New plant, nice offices, casual work environment.

Cons

The company management deteriorated with each new CEO, and the people matter value disappeared quickly. The group I was in was poorly managed, favoritism, bullying, backstabbing, undermining was the every day norm. It became so miserable, that people dreaded coming into work. Add to that the ever looming threat of a layoff and you can imaging the atmosphere at FS. To be fair, not all groups were like that but then not everyone was so lucky. Only senior management have good compensation packages, the lower level folks were reduced or eliminated all together.

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