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      SolarCity

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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

      Ratings by category

      4.2

      Diversity & inclusion

      3.7

      Culture & values

      3.5

      Career opportunities

      3.4

      Compensation and benefits

      3.2

      Senior management

      3.1

      Work/Life balance

      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
      5.0
      Mar 9, 2015

      Working on SW attempting to solve the energy grid's most interesting and pressing problems.

      Software engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      The SW team is a high quality group of engineers... probably the best overall group I've come across in my career yet. There seems to be a mostly healthy work/life balance. Hard and intense work, but not too many crazy expectations or all-nighters. The best part is the set of problems we're working on: * SW to help a fleet of energy systems interact most optimally with the energy grid; * customer engagement tools to improve the adoption of solar across the country by lowering customer engagement costs; * system design and modeling tools * energy grid data analytics Overall, it's a pretty wide breadth of SW challenges in one company: web front-end, web back-end, control algorithms, cloud infrastructure, embedded systems, mobile apps. Mostly there are good SW dev processes in place: code reviews, unit testing, continuous integration to name a few. Finally, the company seems to have a pretty consistent business strategy. No random swings from one priority to the next and projects scrapped due to managerial whims as I've seen elsewhere.

      Cons

      Compensation is fair to good... but it's not Google, Apple, Facebook. And the quirky SW industry benefits which some of the big boys can offer (free food, laundry, haircuts, massage, etc) aren't to be found here. The SW dev practices are pretty good, but in some cases/teams/projects just being implemented. Always room for improvement there.

      5.0
      Mar 9, 2015

      Fantastic Engineering Culture

      Senior software engineer type
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Working on something that matters is great. This company is creating real legacy -- ending fossil fuel dependence, cleaner air and water. If you're sick of writing silly software like photo sharing apps and games then this is going to be magic for you. Fantastic work-anywhere, manage the outputs not the inputs culture. Almost no meetings. Everyone is very smart and hardworking. Not a lot of hipster holier than thou. Just a lot of get it done pragmatism.

      Cons

      There's a lot of work to do. It's open seating so it can feel chaotic if you like a nice quite library to work in. But they let you work from home whenever/wherever so that more than makes up for it. If you're looking for foosball and bagel buffets keep moving these aren't the droids you're looking for.

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