SolarCity
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SolarCity interview questions
Updated Sep 12, 2019Difficulty
Average
Experience
Mostly positive
How others got an interview
- 26%Employee ReferralEmployee Referral
- 17%RecruiterRecruiter
- 4%In PersonIn Person
- 3%OtherOther
- 1%Campus RecruitingCampus Recruiting
- 1%Staffing AgencyStaffing Agency
Interview search
570 interviews
SolarCity interviews FAQs
- Glassdoor users rated their interview experience at SolarCity as 63.3% positive with a difficulty rating score of 2.53 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty). Candidates interviewing for Energy Analyst and PV Designer rated their interviews as the hardest, whereas interviews for Software Engineer and Team Lead roles were rated as the easiest.
- The hiring process at SolarCity takes an average of 17 days when considering 566 user submitted interviews across all job titles. To compare, the average duration of hiring at similar companies like BlackRock, Inc. is 14 days, Fabricated Software, Inc. is 2 days, and Apple Inc. is 21 days. Candidates applying for Web Applications Engineer had the quickest hiring process (on average 1 day), whereas Art Director roles had the slowest hiring process (on average 360 days).
- Common stages of the interview process at SolarCity according to 566 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 21%
One on one interview: 17%
Background check: 16%
Drug test: 12%
Group panel interview: 11%
Skills test: 10%
Personality test: 7%
Presentation: 3%
IQ intelligence test: 2%
Other: 1%
Here are the most commonly searched roles for interview reports -
- Field Energy Consultant(258) ;
- Field Energy Specialist(141) ;
- Inside Energy Consultant(41) ;
- Field Energy Consultant- Sales(34) ;
- Installer(32) ;
- Regional Sales Manager(31) ;
- Field Energy Advisor(30) ;
- Energy Consultant(28) ;
- PV Designer(27) ;
- FEC(26) ;
- Inside Sales Representative(22) ;
- Sales Representative(22) ;
- Crew Lead(21) ;
- Senior Field Energy Consultant(21) ;
- Inside Energy Specialist(18) .
