SolarCity reviews

NOT any matching 401k at all! Constant changes that are annoying because 1 day you can and the next day you cannot type of changes, terrible leads, lack of leads, unfair distribution of leads, no more team attitude.....you are pretty much alone....... The BIGGEST and most genius thing SolarCity offers is the carrot dangling in front of you to bring on other sales reps in which they reward you by giving you stocks for every sale they install. It IS real, but takes about 1 - 1 1/2 years minimum to get ANY money. Once you get shares released to you, you set up a Merryl Lynch account and then have to wait an additional 6 months for the stocks to mature! You cannot touch them until the 6 months is over at which time you will then pay over 40% in taxes! A complete huge disappointment as most people won't last a year in this position. There's a ton of turn around, and now I understand why! As a FEC (Field Energy Consultant aka. Outside sales rep) you now must not only compete against the completion out there but your own company! They have and inside sales team, a door to door team and the Sacramento teams are coming to the Brentwood area and selling deals constantly and nothing is done. So nice to compete with your very own company! Absolutely ridiculous! 2 years ago this was such a fun job to have. There was a team attitude, a real fun and positive atmosphere and it was exciting to work for SolarCity! Today in 2015, the company does a complete 180 and tries to convince everyone that creating your own leads and going 100% "self generated" is the way to go. It is NOT! Going from 1 of SC top performers to now barely making it, these last 6 months have completely drained me and sucked all the joy of this job out of me. I am sad to leave as I really did love this position for over a year and a half now but the Jim Jones kool aid they keep trying to sell us is a bunch of bull and I believe there is going to be a huge Exodus of really good and talented sales reps leaving SC in the next 6 months. So sad when a company grows to big, too fast and allows this to happen. We have all become just statistics and numbers now. This company is obsessed with statistics, and it has become their greatest downfall as the numbers are sometimes not what they seem and they concentrate on statictics that have no bearing in the end game and overlook a lot of the problems. SMH

I could go on for days about the cons. Again the title of this review is The "Apple Inc" of the Solar industry. Most of you know just how bad Apple really is. You didn't drink the kool-aid and buy into the flashy marketing for devices that have 10 year old features that have been available to everyone on the only suitable platform, Android. Solar is the same. There are so many options out there for employment in this industry that SolarCity has forgotten one important thing, Pay your reps money. Not peanuts. Hire LOCAL people that think for themselves to work with the utility companies and stop reading from a script. SolarCity is THE SLOWEST company in California to install job. The Slowest. it's absurd. They're is also speculation that they're capping their sales reps at around 6 installs a month because of how much money the company is losing to operate each day. Bottom line, if you're 20-25 years old. this is a great 1st start, but you DO NOT want to stay long, Get in, learn solar , learn how they do it, and then find a company that pays real money for install. Hint: it's triple what SolarCity pays for same size systems. Not to mention you'll have 100% more control over your deals if you're smarter than a 5th grader. There is so much to learn in this industry to give customers what they want. SolarCity has no plans to operate outside their little bubble of they claim are qualified jobs. Which is very unfortunate for thousands of blindly loyal followers and employees of this company.