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Koolaid left on the battlefield - Recensione dipendente - Dipendente anonimo presso SolarCity

2,0
25 giu 2015
Dipendente anonimo
Consiglia
Gradimento del CEO
Pronostico commerciale

Vantaggi

There is an opportunity to make a career out of this place. Great vision for the future of energy.

Svantaggi

What it takes to make this place a career in inside sales is being very tech savvy, super resourceful, consistent, and have a structured follow up process. You also need to be able to focus on yourself. This can be a challenge in many ways. Most days you are surrounded by ten different genres of music at ten different volumes, getting hit in the head with nerf bullets, bells ringing, whistles, gongs, and the screaming like banshees when a sale happens. Other focus difficulties come from feeling a sense of pending turnover amongst the sales floor. This comes from those not doing well, who are burnt out from working 12 hour days, 6-7 days a week and not receiving a lead in 3 business days, with a tiny pipeline of closed business unable to generate referrals. Plus not making money other than a $2k base. This leads to water cooler talk galore, and if you don't block this out, you're done. Another issue is how leads are distributed. "Top closers" get more leads. Top "gross" closers get more leads. More customers are canceling because of sales reps performing sub par consultations in order to maintain their pecking order in lead distribution. It will take a fresh recruit having 20 installations a month to make $100k. Nobody is doing that. None. Koolaid on the battlefield - consultants come out of training on fire ready for war, charging the hill, full of the koolaid served by the gallon. They fight and fight and in anywhere from 1 month to a year, they're full of holes, bleeding that koolaid all over the desert....and eventually they die. Its sad.

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5,0
21 ott 2024
Consiglia
Gradimento del CEO
Pronostico commerciale

Vantaggi

Good pay and no supervision working at the different Home Depots

Svantaggi

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4,0
22 mar 2016
Consiglia
Gradimento del CEO
Pronostico commerciale

Vantaggi

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.

Svantaggi

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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