SolarCity reviews

1) When I started there was 6 people doing sales in the area, now there is over 30 with the exact same number of leads. The management team, has flooded the floor with all of their close friends and gives the quality leads to them. 2) Treated like a number. Does not matter how consistent your numbers are, promotions go to the person who had the hot month. Sold 10-13 every month and missed out on a promotion to a guy 2 months into the job that sold 4 & 17 his 2 months. 3) Zero help from management, they have WAY too many people to stay on top of so they do not give you the personal help you need. 4) Culture of dishonesty promoted. During my 2 day training the manager tried to teach me to lower the amount of kw/h the customer uses per month in order to make their SolarCity payment lower. Then customer uses what they use and get a huge bill from the utility. Shady way to do business and it is taught from the Director level on down. 5) Something like a 35% cancellation rate in Central California, hard to earn a living when you lose 3-4 of the 10 deals you close monthly. (10 is generous nearly everyone sold less than 5 last month; see too many salespeople for the leads provided)

You're told something completely different during your interview than what your employment experience actually ends up being. Management is not professional, they are encouraged to talk down to employees! There are some that are even related, so you can't talk to anyone about anything ifbhre are issues. The team leads just sit around, they don't actually work while on a job site, so you're short a hand and then they tell management that they did all of the work and the team is useless, so management takes their word for it which keeps you fearing that you'll lose your job all the time. They don't formally train you, even though they say that they will and then they tell you that you'll be trained on the job, but the leads don't do that and get mad that you weren't already trained, so they expect you to know everything your first day out. Be prepared to be yelled at and belittled all day long as management encourages it. You will be forced to work Sundays, so if you're realigous, they'll threaten to fire you! I was lucky to have this Sunday off because of a prior commitment, but they put me through the ringer for it! You will be working 12-14 hour days starting at 6:00 AM and your team lead does not allow you to take a lunch (even though that's illegal in NV) you'll just have occasional five minute breaks, so learn to eat fast and expect to get yelled at if you have to drive to a gas station to use the facilites! During your interview and even when you're hired, they tell you that you'll drive to the office every morning and then jump in a work truck for the day. That's a huge lie! They make you drive to the office to punch in and load one work truck for the team lead to drive and then the rest of the team has to take their personal cars to the jobs for the day and then possibly drive back to the office that night to unload the truck. For a company that's so into saving the planet, they certainly encourage five or six extra cars to be out on the road instead of just two trucks! Bottom line, be prepared to be abused, not see your family ever, have your job threatened all the time, have to deal with childish games from management and spend a lot of money for your own gas! No one is happy here.