SunPower reviews

The marketing department is the most insane that I've ever experienced in 15 years. That really is saying something. Leadership is terrible. They change direction every other minute and the CMO comes up with ideas at all hours of the night and expects you to jump on them no matter what else you are working on. She introduces prescriptive "solutions" instead of presenting a problem and letting the experts come up with a solution based on their experience. There's zero consideration given to actual planning and strategy. So naturally, the marketing team produces crap. Only a very select few people here get that the only thing we can produce is crap given the non-direction and the completely insane timetables. I've tried asking questions about "why does this need to go live today?" and that was frowned upon. There was no reason given. Just that the CMO wanted it done. I'm all for done is better than perfect... but producing a ton of crap isn't the answer. Everyone I work with consistently pulls 60+ hour weeks and for what? This will come to a head. IT is really terrible. Everyone who has a Mac has to have a Dell laptop to schedule WebEx meetings and conference rooms. The company chooses to use a lot of really dated and really unproductive tools. The process for getting software is the worst I've experienced. I've been waiting months to get really basic software installed. IT is based in the Philippines.

-Executives don't listen to employee concerns, and people are often punished for raising legitimate issues--e.g., a project is going way off track. Executives are quite disconnected from on-the-ground reality of projects, and they don't want to hear bad news. -Management is extremely slow in making decisions. When management makes a mistake, they need to take responsibility, hold people accountable, and fix things. But this doesn't happen. -When decisions do get made, they are made without consulting other parts of the organization, such that (when it's time to implement), everyone gets screwed over. -Highly political environment. If you want to get recognized and promoted, you have to know the right people, scratch the right backs, and brown-nose a great deal. -The culture is such that the operations and back-office teams (those who do the most work) don't get credit or get promoted. -Salaries are a bit below market. Equity compensation is emphasized, but often doesn't vest because people leave out of frustration.