Momentum Solar reviews

3.2

54% would recommend to a friend

(1,496 total reviews)
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Arthur Souritzidis

63% approve of CEO

49% positive business outlook

Momentum Solar has an employee rating of 3.2 out of 5 stars, based on 1,496 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Momentum Solar employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Energy, Mining & Utilities industry (3.7 stars).

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1.0
Jan 3, 2022
Recommend
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Pros

- generally friendly coworkers, but most of them will leave anyways

Cons

- you’re selling a product that doesn’t benefit the customer. By the end of my first month doing sales, I knew that I was lying to our customers every time I gave the pitch, and it felt too immoral. Unless you’re the kind of salesperson that can continuously screw people over and remain unconcerned about it, this isn’t for you. - salary is basically nonexistent. They pay $500/week, so after taxes that’s around $450 or less. Each week you’ll be driving between 40 minutes-2 hours to get to an appointment, 6 (sometimes 7) days per week without compensation for gas or tolls. My average day consisted of driving somewhere between 4 and 9 hours. - most of their “hot leads” are dead ends. The majority of appointments that I went to (after driving usually an hour or more) were people who weren’t home and wouldn’t answer their phone, people that already canceled or rescheduled their appointment, and those that didn’t actually qualify due to credit score, tree shading, or zoning. Have fun driving for 8 hours when you may not even get your foot into any of the houses they send you to. - they tell you that your earning potential is really high when it isn’t. They pay 8 cents per kw, when the industry standard is 25-30. This may not sound like a lot, but it adds up to thousands of lost dollars. They also continuously tell you to “just be patient” for your first sale commissions to be processed and that it only takes two weeks, but what they don’t tell you is that it can take up to several. You can’t exactly be patient when you can’t pay your bills on their “salary”. And since the salary basically just pays for your gas and tolls, most of my coworkers were forced to quit within the first several weeks because they couldn’t pay their bills. - In my first 4 weeks, I witnessed my training class of 9 drop to 5. By the time I quit, there were two others remaining. As of now, there is one left. I witnessed over a dozen people either quit or get fired while I was there, including my trainer and the state manager within 3 weeks of starting my job. There are about 3 employees in the jersey offices that have been with the company for over a year—so much for retention of talent.

5.0
Dec 18, 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Training with Momentum is insanely thorough and awesome, a company willing to put this much time, energy and money into all of their employees is a rarity in today's world! If you put in the work you can easily make well over 6 figures in your first year! You are helping people get cheaper, cleaner power and you're with the best company going.

Cons

You will have to put in work, everybody knows if you really want to make a lot of money it doesn't come automatically!

1.0
Jan 12, 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The biggest pro for me was realizing how important and valuable every single moment of time we get on this earth is. I grew to hate this job so much, every single second spent outside of the world of Momentum was such a treat. I now value my time, myself, and my lifestyle so much more, I'm so thankful I now have ZERO ties to this demonic, soul crushing, soulless company. They offer a " base pay " to all their employees. The base pay is $872.00 every 2 weeks. They tell you it's $1,000 every 2 weeks, after taxes and such you get $872.00 For a sales job having a base pay in this in-home sales industry is rare and that's initially what actually attracted me to the job. This would be the only "Pro" I could see. When you eventually add up the mileage and wear and tear on your vehicle,( not to mention the gas costs) the supplemental "base pay" of $872.00 every two weeks will keep you in debt, poor, and hungry. The only pro being that there is one to begin with.

Cons

Okay, let's talk about it. The elephant in the room. The main piece of the cake. THE SCRIPT. Ahhhh yes, the "famous" script. First of all, Momentum will require/ FORCE you to RIGOROUSLY MEMORIZE this absolutely tedious, unnecessary, boring, coma inducing script. This is essentially 90% of your 2 week "training" This script is terrible for a few reasons but for efficiency, let's sum it up quickly for YOU the reader shall we? #1. No one cares about the CEO and his business partners accolades!!!!! The amount of bootlicking praise the upper management receives in this script is outright CRINGE INDUCING. I mean, as a salesperson you're telling me, we're meant to spend 20 minutes speaking on the greatness of two men's lives whom we've never met and whom don't know of our existence let alone the fact we work for their company to a homeowner? Odd. Cult like. It's just strange. ALOT of bootlicking and cult like praise in that section. Everyone finds it odd. #2. Upper management is sad. All the "leaders" of the company are pretty pathetic "Chad", Boiler Room wanna-be's. You as a sales rep will be constantly put down in the weekly meetings for having "poor performance" in fact, this is the recurring theme in all the National Meetings the company holds once a week. Essentially they gather everyone in the company together for 2.5 hours on Zoom and tell them how poor and crappy their lives are and that you need to devote even more time to this company and essentially make them your entire life or you'll be a loser. You're expected to devote yourself completely to Momentum. They will not give you your schedule ahead of time at all. There are days where you think you're working, and you won't get a single appointment all day. Then, there will be days where you think you're off, and at 6pm ( NOT JOKING) you will get a notification stating you've gotten an 8pm appointment. 8pm! That's madness, especially for a first time meeting. You're not given a weekly schedule, you won't know your days on or off, so it will be much harder to make plans for your personal life. You will receive emails and texts at all hours of the day and night about your jobs, duties, and essentially asking for in depth explanations on all your no sales. Which will be most of your appointments because most people won't qualify for solar, or sign up to go solar right then and there. You're expected to complete all sorts of post training modules for the entirety of your career which is essentially online quizzes of the same material over and over again. This company will send you out well over an hour ( sometimes almost 2 hours ) in one direction, *DISTANCE WISE EXCLUDING TRAFFIC* to get to an "appointment" that will 70% of the time not answer the door, not be home/available for the appointment, or will flat out just choose for whatever reason to not sit. ( Sit here meaning, sit down with you as the sales rep and have the appointment). There goes your time and gas. Wasted. Time and time again. Lastly, the turnover rate is astounding. Almost everyone who becomes an employee will end up leaving shortly after. I watched this happen for a year. They all experience the same information I've written for you. Don't believe me? Okay, I wish you peace and healing once you see for yourself. Bonus note: The promised $10,000.00 sign on "Bonus" is not a Bonus and In fact a PERFORMANCE BASED PAY SCALE which is purposefully damn near impossible for a new hire to achieve. Very slimy practice. Let's sum it up. DO NOT WORK HERE = OPPORTUNITY TO FIND HAPPINESS AND MEANINGFUL WORK WORK HERE= CONTEMPLATE JUMPING OFF THE BRIDGE AFTER ANOTHER DRINK ON A TUESDAY AT 11PM. A lot of OVER PROMISE and total UNDER DELIVERANCE.

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