SolarCity reviews

1. Low pay To say the pay is substandard would be making it sound better than it is. It is about $20k lower than the average for the same position in Las Vegas. You get paid a menial hourly rate, which never increases. The commission is structured in such a way that you have no control over your installations which means you may or may not get paid for a job you have put in 100 hours or more on. And the pay on commission is low as well, meaning you walk away with a pittance for the amount of revenue you generate for the company. We do the jobs of 2 people and are paid for half of one. And no one cares. 2. Poor management The managers are horrible. Not the managers directly over staff, which are called RSMs. They are okay. Well, mostly okay now that they fired most of them. There are 2 good ones. The rest are either shady, incompetent, or both. But above them are the worst sort of people you can have running an office. First of all, they do not care about their staff. They have repeatedly said we are not the most important thing here. They seem to revel in letting people go. Worst yet, we have lost most of our sales staff over the course of 4 months. We went from over 300 people in this office to about 80 as of today. And yet we have the same 2 directors and VP. Talk about too many chiefs! 3. Unattainable quotas It is not the number that is unattainable, but the implementation. You have to hit a net quota number every month. It is not adjusted seasonally, or if you are on vacation, or if you are sick. It is the same. Every month. And if you miss it, you are almost guaranteed to be gone in a couple of months based on the company's firing practices. They are using this to gut the sales staff. It is very hard to see people you have worked with for years, who are high producers, good employees, who really care about what we are doing, being walked out because they had a bad streak. It is only a matter of time before we are all fired. 4. Constantly taking away The littler things are wait tell you how little they care about us. There is a break room that used to have free soda, free coffee, snacks, bananas, cereal, english muffins, etc. It wasn't a Vegas buffet, but it was definitely good for filling you up and keeping you going. And for some people - this was actually a meal or 2 because the pay here is so bad. A few months ago the owners of the company decided to take it all away. they said it was a symbolic gesture of their tightening the belt. What it sybolized to us is that they do not give a damn about their people and do not understand that people were relying on that food because their pay is so bad. Fast forward to now. They have installed a kiosk called "company kitchen". You can buy crappy cafeteria food that is days old. There are no condiments so buying anything from there is a guaranteed venture to "dry mouth city". Also, the soda machine is still there but most of the flavors are ALWAYS empty. Only one coffee urn works any more. These things, while small, tell us what they think of us. Why bother being nice to us or doing any good for us if you are going to fire us anyway, right? 5. No matched 401K This is infuriating. This company is not a start-up. The new CEO fancies himself as some sort of hero. Hey hero - help your employees! Match the 401k, you cheap so and so! 6. No annual pay increase Again - are you kidding me? Who ever heard of a place that does not have annual increases?? It is amazing this place still stands. 7. No loyalty They are firing people right and left here. It does not matter what your track record is or how you have produced for the company in the past. They do not care about us. At all. 8. Horrible working conditions The morale here is so terribly low it is a grind just to walk through the door. I need the insurance, or I'd be gone already. At this point I, like most people here, am sticking it out to see what happens and hopefully see some of the managers get the boot. they already beat the "love of the mission" out of us.