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SolarCity

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Honest Review - Inside Sales SolarCity Employee Review

3.0
3 Jan 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

They hired a lot of top sales people from different industries. Which is why they grew so fast. So you can learn a lot for your fellow co workers. Its a tech company feel, they have an arcade machine, free soda, coffee, snacks pretty much anything that will make you fat. lol Haynes Barnard is the leader of the sales department, He is very motivating, awesome speaker and a type of person you would follow. He's a type of person that I would pay to see his seminars.

Cons

After all the great things i said about Haynes thats where the leadership stops. He is located in the San Jose area so he not around our office much. Don't get me wrong we have some good leaders but its a hit or miss because of all the promotions that happened in the past year. Most of those who got promoted was promoted because of seniority. They may have been great in sales but not as management.. Salary is very low compared to other companies. Commission is about average. At first people here was making money but recently there had been major changes because of so much growth that it feels SolarCity bubble has popped. The way they distributes leads had dropped dramatically. Some people have not received a lead for the bast 2 months! Thats hard to make a living if most of your money is earned by sales. They put you in this "Sales Queue" that is completely flawed. The Queue is suppose to dictate on how much leads your are able to get based on your closing % but they keep on changing the rules almost monthly because it doesn't work so its hard to really stay on track. You can literally be in the best "Queue" one week, receive leads every day then never see a lead the next 3-4 weeks. If you drop in the Sales Queue good luck getting out. The Sales Queue is the biggest reason people quit. Before you can make money through marketing and referrals leads but now the only way you can make money is by referrals. So the flawed sales queue pretty much cut some peoples salary in half! You also don't get paid any commission till the system gets installed which can take about 3- 5 months.

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Pros

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Cons

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4.0
22 Mar 2016
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Pros

Just to quantify my review a bit, I am within the top 10% of inside sales reps within our 12,000 person company. It is a great place to work and people doing well ARE able to make good money here. The executive team ALWAYS has a platform for reps to help make SolarCity a better place every quarter. They involve the top 20 reps each quarter in various ways to help their peers through an interactive group called Team Elite. Executives, VP's, Directors, and Managers are always willing to help and go to bat when there are issues with things that need to be fixed. The direction of the company is consistent and although the company is large, decision makers work as hard as possible to steer the big ship quickly when necessary.

Cons

Knee jerk reactions with decision making at a director level create issues from time to time. Culture has had its ups and downs due to HUGE growth last year and subsequent high attrition rates.

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