SolarCity Software Developer reviews

Everyday I wake up knowing I will help someone switch to solar energy. I'm fortunate and proud to have that feeling everyday. I'm not sugar coating when I say SolarCity is giving the world a fighting chance to solve global warming. SolarCity is becoming more vertically integrated. Even as a software developer, I have so many opportunities in the technology stack and across domain like process management, geo, grid management, finance.

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.