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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
Sep 5, 2017

Bro-Culture; unstable (now TSLA)

Recommend
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Business Outlook

Pros

Good compensation package; flexibility; on the whole energetic team of people who care about the mission

Cons

Crowded office facilities (restrooms in SF office likely violate OSHA); political staff comprised of mostly partisan environmentalists without private sector experience, who couldn't create or implement a bi-partisan, pro-business agenda if their life depended on it. A "campaign team" which suffered from an acute sense of self importance and never designed an actual campaign. Too many cooks in the kitchen; not great place for women in the sense that more than 95% of us in mgmt. were men; while entrepreneurial, lack of business experience in most of exec team led to company's downfall (TSLA aquisition). Staff laid off received worst severance package ever (two weeks?!?!).

1.0
Sep 2, 2017

Horrible HR Staff & Upper Management

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

NO pros for working at the company.

Cons

Horrible Pay (had to fight for a raise), upper management didn't do anything beside looking at personal stuff, manager stole from company and blames other staff, manager got high on company time & propery, manager sold drugs, manager cussed out other staff members. HR sucks and doesn't listen, retaliated against the staff. Pay sucks, benefits suck. Doesn't match anythin on 401K

3.0
Aug 29, 2017

Big Machine

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Talented and passionate people working at the company.

Cons

The company got so big that it was hard to get anything achieved on a timely manner. Too many decision makers that couldn't and/or wouldn't make any decisions.

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