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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

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
Jun 5, 2017

Sales

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- Base Pay - Benefits - Car provided - Excellent Training

Cons

- Disorganized, constant turnover, many changes among leadership and strategy. - Making sales requires constant attention to getting jobs to install - you are also the project manager - Commissions low on company leads compared to other companies - Sales can be very difficult if you are in a saturated market - you will need to work 6 days a week at least, 7 days a week during ramp up. - Company organized in silos - little room to move laterally

1.0
Jun 5, 2017

FES

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Full time with benefits and 401k

Cons

I was a former SolarCity employee for over 3 Years as an FES. I watched as SolarCity Continued to fire every month over 60% of its salesforce which created individulally over 200,000 dollars in revenue a month while an abundance of managers that did absoulutely nothing but just walked into Home Depots and spied on their employees.As the company every year diminished the FEC and FEC compensation to Next to nothing,You sir have reaped the benefits of Money! You are a South African with no reguard for The American dream which is to prosper and make a simple living,You sir are a corporate Greedist! with no care for your employees,To pay people 30K for what they provided is a JOKE! I wish you would understand that people only get Solar to SAVE money The American people could care less about Climate Change! Sincerely, An American!

1.0
Jun 4, 2017

Overview

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Good People who are excited about the industry.

Cons

Sales Managers who are promoted without any leadership experience. They have some to the worst sales managers in the industry who feel empowered to lead by texting. Most sales managers hardly interact with their team by voice as the norm is texting and group chat accounts.

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