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Customer Care Specialist applicants have rated the interview process at SolarCity with 2.6 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 78% positive. To compare, the company-average is 63.3% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Customer Care Specialist roles take an average of 15 days to get hired, when considering 10 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at SolarCity overall takes an average of 17 days.
Common stages of the interview process at SolarCity as a Customer Care Specialist according to 10 Glassdoor interviews include:
Background check: 22%
Phone interview: 22%
Group panel interview: 17%
Skills test: 14%
Personality test: 11%
One on one interview: 11%
Presentation: 3%
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I applied online. I interviewed at SolarCity (Las Vegas, NV) in Jul 2014
Interview
Applied online for a Customer Care Specialist position in Las Vegas and was contacted a week and a half later with an invitation to a candidate mixer. The event had about 100 candidates and 8 Customer Care supervisors, with the candidates moving from one table to another to speak with the different supervisors. Typically you would come in during the middle of a supervisor lecture and wait for a pause in the conversation to give them your resume and say a bit about yourself. Some supervisors would ask each candidate a series of questions (Tell me a little about yourself, what is your phone support background, why do you want to work for Solar City?) while other supervisors would just take your resume and move on. I made it a point to reach out to all of my interviewers again when the event was wrapping up, and I think this helped. I got a call back from a SolarCity recruiter the next day asking me if I was available for an in-person interview the same week.
This second interview involved one of the supervisors from the mixer and her boss, who I had not met before. The interview was mostly personality-based with some questions about what you would do in certain situations in a call center. For example, what if the customer calls in and immediately demands to speak with a supervisor? (answer: show empathy and try your best to find out the customer's grievance so you can handle it yourself. Only transfer to a supervisor if the customer insists, and do all you can to get their information so you don't have to cold-transfer.) After this interview, I was contacted later that day with a job offer but the offer was rescinded after a background check (I have a misdemeanor on my record, whereas the application only asks about felonies).
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
A customer calls in January and complains that their bill is much higher than it was the previous summer. What do you tell them?
I applied online. The process took 3 days. I interviewed at SolarCity (New York, NY) in Apr 2017
Interview
Was contacted by a recruiter who handled everything very quickly. Received confirmation of face to face interview within 12 hours. Met with two interviewers at a wonderful mall location. Interview went great and I felt I would be a fantastic fit there. Brought everything to the table they could possibly need and more. Received notice a few hours later advising I would not get the opportunity. Very disappointed.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at SolarCity (Las Vegas, NV) in Jun 2016
Interview
The interview consisted of a phone interview and then an in person interview which is a group interview with there's about 10 people they separate you in groups of three in there's three individual managers the interview three people
I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at SolarCity (Las Vegas, NV) in Jun 2016
Interview
Pretty straightforward. I applied online and was referred by a friend that works at the company. Got a phone interview 2 days later, then went in for a group interview a couple days later. Got the job that day.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
"Describe a time you went above and beyond for a customer"