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SolarCity

Acquired by Tesla

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SolarCity reviews

3.5

61% would recommend to a friend

(2,336 total reviews)
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Lyndon Rive

84% approve of CEO

56% positive business outlook

SolarCity has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 2,336 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The SolarCity 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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2K reviews
2.0
Oct 13, 2016

Sales

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Company Car, CRM, and Laptop. Great branding with lots marketing materials. Channel partners.

Cons

Was a great company with a future. Now it has imploded on itself and the damage has been done. Selling a product/service that operations can not deliver because they choose not to. To many internal processes that create a bad customer experience and ultimately creates high fall out leaving sales reps going broke.

3.0
Sep 7, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Good atmosphere, great product that you can believe in. Flexible schedule and overall enjoyable job. Company car was definitely an essential given the huge amount of time spent driving to appointments that were often not there or weren't real appointments at all. Great CEO and overall company mission, they really believe in what they are doing.

Cons

It's a lot of work to take a customer through from start to finish with their solar project, and you are the main person responsible for doing so. Commission seemed very low for leads they gave to you, the only way to make a decent amount of commission would be to generate your own leads. You have to fight to keep leads you've been given otherwise they are quick to reassign them, even jobs that you've closed you need to stay on top of if there is any sort of delay for the job (very often) or somebody else will sneak in and take it and you won't get paid. It's not a terribly complicated or difficult thing to sell, so it must be okay for them to continue with low pay and very high turnover rates.

1.0
Aug 26, 2016

Rapid growth and change with unprepared management

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Good work hours and set schedule Free snacks, cereal and drinks at office Culture is very good, teammates are great to work with usually With high call volume easy to make your quotas and bonus Good company message, mission is for the greater good Working with Tesla

Cons

Management has no idea what they're doing and in turn many customers are angry at all the mess ups and are wanting answers. Management does not have answers except for "tell them to call back next week and watch their accounts". Completely unacceptable. High wait times due to amount of customers calling, overloading all the concierge and customer care lines. Pay is not nearly worth the stress and workload given to you on a daily basis. High turnover rate due to this. There are more cons but these are the main problems with working in this company. Completely unstructured with the right hand not knowing what the left is doing with many people touching a job, it's easy for one person to mess up and for the entire project to crumble.

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