Palmetto reviews

3.3

44% would recommend to a friend

(135 total reviews)
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Chris Kemper

57% approve of CEO

41% positive business outlook

Palmetto has an employee rating of 3.3 out of 5 stars, based on 135 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Palmetto employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Energy, Mining & Utilities industry (3.7 stars).

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135 reviews
2.0
Oct 12, 2022
Recommend
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Pros

* Great benefits * Good salary * Great team members * In theory working for a great cause. * Lots of empathetic, smart, thoughtful leaders.

Cons

Company pivots every 6-9 months which makes it really hard to take any new initiative seriously. I totally get iterating, but it takes a toll to do it so frequently and aggressively. As an example, the marketing teams got completely gutted every 12 months or so, to make room for new folks every time there was a major pivot. If you are in marketing, it doesn't matter what you do since you'll probably be laid off within the year. There is a lack of cohesiveness across the organization. Leadership seems invested in trying to create good culture, but there is no getting around the fact that the experience of working at Palmetto is too different between teams. Software teams are darlings (great pay, 4-day work week, little accountability) while Operations & Customer Service teams are massively overworked and tasked with meeting impossible goals. I was lucky enough to work under some great folks but quite a few of people have left due to management situations that were so bad they didn't even get new offers lined up, they just couldn't deal with the stress anymore. As a company I'd say overall leadership at Palmetto is quite empathetic and great to work with, but it only takes a few toxic folks to really put a damper on things. Very little connection to the work. It is all handed down by Product/Business with near zero input from folks doing the work. However, Product folks are almost all unfamiliar with Solar industry and Business side folks don't know tech so almost all initiatives go through crazy amounts of back and forth to complete even the most basic features.

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Palmetto Response
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Thank you so much for leaving your review. We take all feedback very seriously - especially when it helps us set higher expectations and see areas where we can improve. With our intense high growth phase, the priorities of the business are constantly evolving as we strive to hit our mission to positively impact our climate and our world. Palmetto values longevity and maintaining a work-life balance for its employees. We believe that it is critical to work hard towards key deliverables, and equally important to regain our energy for sustainability. While no teams have a 4-day work week, we have several favorable policies in place such as unlimited PTO with 10 business days mandatory vacation per year, flexible work hours remote-first work environment among many other benefits. We appreciate your feedback and are always open to adjustments that make the experience better for present and future team members.
2.0
Sep 15, 2023

What the heck happened?

Recommend
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Pros

Remote work, good PTO policy, green company

Cons

Absurd amount of layoffs, changes direction too often, leadership doesn’t support departments.

1.0
Apr 28, 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

CEO was visibly involved within the company

Cons

If I could give this company 0 stars I absolutely would. Was hired on to do a particular job, they fired my direct supervisor 2 weeks in and threw me to the sharks. No structure or training on how to do the job, then proceeded to change my job responsibilities to something I wasn't hired for and laid me off within 2 months with 4 others they hired on "due to performance", even though I was never given a chance to perform and changed my day-to-day to duties that weren't correlated with performance.

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