Crushing Disappointment - Anonymous employee SunPower Employee Review

2.0
Dec 3, 2015
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

On the right side of history, great compensation package (bonus + stock), great benefits, lots of paid holidays.

Cons

Just a terrible working environment--from the non-existent new employee orientation to the constant push to do more with less to the ludicrous "key initiative" program which ensures you're working on some customer unfriendly project to enrich executives. The company likes to think it is innovative, but really it's just a bunch of disorganized self-styled visionaries running from one fire drill to another--always faster, never smarter.

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