SunPower reviews

Where to start - Cancerous and incompetent CEO; top-heavy leadership (too many C and VP level folks to count and all make BANK when others do not); goals are wholly unrealistic; HR does not care and is useless (pay is not good, bonuses not paid, promotions have no guidelines and are given to good-ol-boys who drink with managers), processes are borken, "technology" solutions do not work, and no one knows what is going on. Teams do not talk with one another and in some cases work against one anoehter. Seriously, the place is a s**t show.

I've been here almost 2 years now, just in time for the "solar coaster". It's no secret that SunPower is having a rough time financially. It's been quite scary and stressful for the past year waiting to see if you get laid off. Fortunately I survived. They handled the layoffs in a VERY abysmal way. Telling us way in advance, then leaving us hanging for months only to finally cut the strings in the middle of Christmas holidays. So painful. Morale was stupidly low. The only "positive" I can think of for handling it this way is it gave employees time to update their resumes and such. SunPower was already understaffed in terms of the number of employees available versus what the company wanted to work on. Now there are like 33% less employees. However, executives have done a great job of narrowing focus, so the workload hasn't changed. IT/Corporate support is a joke due to all of the outsourcing. Training is practically non-existant in my role. It is very sink or swim from the moment you join. However, everyone I work with is very friendly and intelligent - it's easy to find help if you need it. Work-life balance is still hard, I work 50 hour weeks fairly regularly.