Pros
I love the idea of helping people and companies go solar. There are some good, smart people here. SunPower does a lot of donations and giving through their foundation, which is awesome. The Richmond office is in an amazing building.
Cons
The marketing department is the most insane that I've ever experienced in 15 years. That really is saying something. Leadership is terrible. They change direction every other minute and the CMO comes up with ideas at all hours of the night and expects you to jump on them no matter what else you are working on. She introduces prescriptive "solutions" instead of presenting a problem and letting the experts come up with a solution based on their experience. There's zero consideration given to actual planning and strategy. So naturally, the marketing team produces crap. Only a very select few people here get that the only thing we can produce is crap given the non-direction and the completely insane timetables. I've tried asking questions about "why does this need to go live today?" and that was frowned upon. There was no reason given. Just that the CMO wanted it done. I'm all for done is better than perfect... but producing a ton of crap isn't the answer. Everyone I work with consistently pulls 60+ hour weeks and for what? This will come to a head. IT is really terrible. Everyone who has a Mac has to have a Dell laptop to schedule WebEx meetings and conference rooms. The company chooses to use a lot of really dated and really unproductive tools. The process for getting software is the worst I've experienced. I've been waiting months to get really basic software installed. IT is based in the Philippines.