First Solar Development Engineer II reviews

3.0

41% would recommend to a friend

(8 total reviews)
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Mark Widmar

17% approve of CEO

22% positive business outlook

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8 reviews
4.0
4 Apr 2025
Recommend
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Pros

Relaxed and people are friendly

Cons

Slow at times and weather in winter not too great

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First Solar Response
1y
Thank you for your review. We are happy to see that your experience has been mostly positive overall! Keep up the great work!
4.0
1 Apr 2025
Recommend
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Pros

People are nice and respect each other. Good work-life balance. The cost of living is very affordable.

Cons

Not many things to do around this area. It's in Ohio A lot of uncertainties under current administration.

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First Solar Response
1y
Thanks for the review. We are happy to hear your experience has been mostly positive! Please reach out to us at jobs@firstsolar.com if you'd like to provide more insight into your experience with us.
2.0
6 Mar 2025

Employment at FS

Recommend
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Pros

I worked on projects with a mix of teams that all were smart and approachable people to work with. Any challenges we faced, most of them were nice enough to work together to resolve the issues rather than point fingers at each other.

Cons

The above-mentioned project was canceled and they broke the news to us just before everyone went on vacation towards the end of the year. One would think they had their next steps detailed out and that's why they broke the news all of a sudden. But no. They were as clueless as the audience. The management has a 5-year and 10-year plan on where they want to be, competing with other solar manufacturers out there (especially Chinese), but they have no clue what the next month, the next quarter, or the next year should look like. They had near zero idea of the next steps to be taken and they had no pieces put in place before they decided to make a bold move of pivoting to a completely new direction. Zero communication between different teams and also from upper management to the teams. I have seen 2-3 teams work on the same task without even knowing the other team is doing the same.

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First Solar Response
1y
Thank you for the review. We appreciate insight and feedback provided by associates. If you'd like to share more on your experience at First Solar, please reach out to us at jobs@firstsolar.com.
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