SolarCity Reviews

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Quota can be a challenge. Outside factors out of your control can affect how many deals you are able to close

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Terrible management. Quotas based on jobs sold and not jobs installed. Training used to be great but now it's mediocre at best and they teach a canned sales pitch.

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Not enough extensive training. Meetings were useless. Wasn't given much direction. High turnover

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TERRIBLE management
High turnover
Unrealistic quotas
Micromanage everything, even bathroom breaks

Stay away from this department, it went from okay, to bad, to worse over the years

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Since Tesla acquisition, work/life balance is out of whack. No longer a 'Sales' organization. The shift is now more to brand integrity than on convincing and persuading homeowners on going solar. Comp plan went from simple to complex(NEVER a good sign for a sales rep, no matter management tries to spin it). Now commission payouts are determined by how many you can get installed in a month, and payouts are systems already installed for the month are less if you miss month installation goal(installations are contingent on weather, crew capacities, scheduling/customer scheduling conflicts, PTO issuance = control factor is LIMITED and FEC's are on the hook for it all). Sales cycle are an average of 30-45 days long, and that's if you know how to process your deals from start to finish, and customers are committed and schedule without any issues. Cycles can be as long as 90 to 120 days or more, depending on the aforementioned variables. East Coast homeowner mindset is unlike West Coast, executive leadership out West doesn't appear to be aware of this. Restricted to getting leads from home Pod (designated store generated leads), limiting areas with larger roofs (meaning larger commissions), also limits area where you can self gen and/or get referrals. Industry has matured a bit. Lowest hanging fruit has already been picked so closing requires far more effort, and that means more customers are apt to ghosting you once they've signed up just to get you out of the home. (It's also not a good sign when vets start to reminisce about the good ol' days instead of being fired up on the fun in front of them). No longer can reps canvass door to door, big hurt on surrounding homes with installations. Benefits packages are fair but have high deductibles.

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Stressful at times
Standing and Smiling all day
mentally exhausting
Sometimes I WANTED my manager to be there to help me out but he was always busy.

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Unreasonable quotas, quotas always changing, no work life balance, expected to work every day and be avaialble from 8am-8pm

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Poor Management, no leads are given to you your first month after training which leads you into a bad start. Hard to land on your feet your next month on quota.

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I would say the only Con for the job is not having weekends off.

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The major con that we had was that the entire direct sellers were let go. Due to realignment of SolarCity and Tesla, approximately 1200 people were let go.
Upper management was deceiving by talking about letting the other Energy Consultants go due to major costs on a monthly basis.