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Solar Turbines

Part of Caterpillar

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Solar Turbines reviews

3.9

74% would recommend to a friend

(621 total reviews)

Jim Umpleby

72% approve of CEO

70% positive business outlook

Solar Turbines has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 621 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Solar Turbines 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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621 reviews
4.0
Apr 11, 2014

slowly declining

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Good work / life balance Great benefits

Cons

Can have long hours without compensation Bonuses are decreasing year after year

3.0
Apr 9, 2014

Safe and secure company to work for

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Very relaxed environment with great people/culture/values. Hard to get fired (rarely do people get fired because of poor performance). Many opportunities for technical & professional growth.

Cons

Lower than industry compensation. Not clear why certain people are promoted while the pace of career advancement is slow and it seems like there is a waiting line for every position. Most promotions require you to move and if you want to move into the upper echelons in the company you have to move quite a bit.

2.0
Apr 3, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

1.Right out of college was the best thing ever! they will treat you well, you will learn a lot. 2. Good benefits comparing to other companies in SD- minus the pay. 3. best location ever though expensive.

Cons

1. Solar does not appreciate hard workers who are smart and highly educated. 2. Most managers are not qualified to do the job. they simply act like kids out of a high school. tons of employees are not qualified either! 3. Once you get hired it's almost impossible to get promoted you have to move to different jobs to get promoted. 4. Hard work and education does not mean anything to Management. all they care about is personality and if you're friends with them you will get promoted. 5.Full of inadequate employees -super low performers- some don't even work, they just get paid what a shame! a lot of the Six SIgma Black belts are just waste! Solar will never fire lazy employees they will be kept and placed in some Black Belt position making good money and wasting everybody's time with projects that don't help the company or the bottom line. 6.Big High School Drama! 7. nepotism is big!! your relative has to be working in the company to get a good salary grade!!! it's so pathetic! 8.The pay is pathetic if you've been at the company for a while new hires with no experience usually make 15%-30% more than you. it's so unfair! you have to train new hires who make much more than you! 9. Solar loves to hire unqualified managers with no degrees or with degrees from crappy fake online schools. 10.No one cares about new ideas or innovative solutions!! they're stuck in the past!! 11. Politics!!! all they care about is politics! hard work does not equate to promotion! bullshitting is the essence at Solar. 12. insensitive managers.

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