If you’re reading this, chances are you’re looking to fill one of the many job openings that have come up after a 50% increase in company resignations over the last few months. But first you should ask yourself why people are resigning left and right. I’ll tell you.
- Pay continues to decline. Every year your 3% (typical) raise puts you 5% behind peers and inflation. Work 50-60 hour weeks? You’ll get 3.5%. Work “40” and do the bare minimum? 3%. Is that 0.5% worth it? Didn't think so.
- The company will go after any and all business. Management is pushing an extremely expedited NPI schedule plus increasing volumes that are impossible to support due to the war in Ukraine and massive raw material shortages that have doubled lead time. As a result, they just grind on the supply chain and product groups. No recognition of the impossibility of the requests. Just pushing people to the breaking point.
- Previous leadership panicked and laid off a bunch of people in 2020. This is most noticeable in support departments that are desperately needed and hugely understaffed (HR, recruiting, supply chain staff positions, engineering and technical roles). Now the work keeps getting spread on less people (with no pay increases) until that person can’t take it anymore and quits, and then the cycle repeats.
- The only thing that matters at Solar is how likable you are. If you aren’t getting together for happy hours after work or you rubbed someone the wrong way years ago, you are screwed. Memories are long, and promo decisions are “cultural fit” decisions not data driven
- Culture at the top is all drivers and dictatorial leadership styles. When the only tool they know how to use is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
