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    Updated 15 Sep 2019

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    Found 2342 reviews

    3.1
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    51%
    Recommend to a Friend
    78%
    Approve of CEO
    SolarCity CEO Lyndon Rive
    Lyndon Rive
    1,609 Ratings
    Pros

    • "Good pay; Great People; Amazing Mission - this is a really great company to work for if you love Elon this is the place for you" (in 100 reviews)

    • "mission-driven, collaborative culture, great people who truly want to do the right thing" (in 95 reviews)

    Cons

    • "No work/life balance, poor training" (in 103 reviews)

    • "Sometimes you work late or long hours to accommodate customer schedules" (in 77 reviews)

    More Pros and Cons

    1. "interesting job, you learn a lot"

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      Current Employee - Customer Service Representative in Melbourne
      Recommends
      Positive Outlook

      I have been working at SolarCity full-time for less than a year

      Pros

      Team work, co-operative staff, interesting KPI'S

      Cons

      too much of work load

      Advice to Management

      should hire more staff

      SolarCity2017-11-29

    2. "Great when it started but then it wasn't"

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      Doesn't Recommend
      Neutral Outlook
      No Opinion of CEO

      I worked at SolarCity

      Pros

      Benefits, pay, stocks, company vehicle

      Cons

      Pay changed, more work less money, no more company vehicle

      SolarCity2019-09-15
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    3. "Misleading"

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      Former Employee - Sales Associate in Boston, MA

      I worked at SolarCity full-time for less than a year

      Pros

      Its casual. You interact with lots of different people

      Cons

      Your only real advancement is door-to-door sales

      SolarCity2019-09-16

    4. "We all should have seen this coming."

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      Former Employee - Director 
      Doesn't Recommend
      Negative Outlook
      Disapproves of CEO

      I worked at SolarCity full-time for more than 5 years

      Pros

      Mission Driven Company, working on clean energy

      Cons

      Naive leadership susceptible to con-artists and blindspots common when boards and executive teams are homogenous.

      Advice to Management

      Never found a company again.

      SolarCity2019-08-23

    5. "Great place to work"

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      Former Employee - Document Generation Specialist in Draper, UT
      Recommends
      Negative Outlook
      No Opinion of CEO

      I worked at SolarCity full-time for more than a year

      Pros

      Benefits and people and flexibility

      Cons

      Low pay and poor middle management

      SolarCity2019-08-05

    6. "Complicated"

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      Former Employee - Field Energy Consultant in Phoenix, AZ
      Doesn't Recommend
      Negative Outlook
      Disapproves of CEO

      I worked at SolarCity full-time for more than a year

      Pros

      The idea of working here was supposed to be a career.

      Cons

      The compensation was not enough, there was a miscommunication between workers, the job was very stressful.

      SolarCity2019-09-07

    7. "So much opportunity"

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      Former Employee - Site Surveyor in Boston, MA
      Recommends
      Positive Outlook
      No Opinion of CEO

      I worked at SolarCity full-time for more than a year

      Pros

      Tons of upward growth at the time. If you worked harder than others, you were recognized for it.

      Cons

      Hemorrhaging money left & right.

      SolarCity2019-07-16

    8. "Was great place"

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      Former Employee - Sales Associate 
      Recommends
      Neutral Outlook
      Approves of CEO

      I worked at SolarCity full-time

      Pros

      Great place great people and atmosphere

      Cons

      The number of phone calls

      SolarCity2019-07-13

    9. "Salary"

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      Current Employee - Field Energy Specialist in Fontana, CA

      I have been working at SolarCity full-time for more than a year

      Pros

      Freedom to work alone majority of the day

      Cons

      they use to retro our commission pay if a deal fell through on a consultant or install team

      SolarCity2019-07-23

    10. "Not enough money"

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      Former Employee - Inside Sales in Roseville, CA
      Doesn't Recommend
      Negative Outlook
      Disapproves of CEO

      I worked at SolarCity full-time for less than a year

      Pros

      Free soda and candy. Nice co-workers

      Cons

      no leadership and they were changing their focus way too much

      Advice to Management

      Too late. They closed the office

      SolarCity2019-07-14
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