solar technician

crew leader

outside sales representative

field superintendent

solar team leader

Semper Solaris Construction, Inc.

I enjoyed my job description. My job had a sense of purpose, I knew what I was doing and I learned a lot. The job was stressful but I can deal with stress if I had a support system, but the fact is, I didn't. When I first started, there was a coworker in the office everyone hated and they made no secret of it. Lots of profanities were passed between two people because there was a lot of tension. Whenever this coworker left the room, the person she had tension with and another girl would talk about how awful she was. Within two weeks of me being there, this coworker left. I tried to fit in and I thought I was doing a good job. I thought I had friends. But attitudes shifted about two months in when they hired a new person. I was started to be treated differently and outright ignored. I could only assume from past experiences that I was now the person being whispered about and talked about behind their back. I was never invited to lunch. There was a Christmas party down south and my manager, instead of checking to see if I was invited just assumed I wasn't so everyone discussed their plans for going while ignoring me. This may not seem like a big deal but by December, I was one of the most senior people in that office. I was hired in August and had been there longer than eight people. But I was still on the outside because I was a temp. At the christmas party, there was an award specifically for northern California and corporate gave it to a southern california branch. My coworkers came back very upset. "They never see us! They never appreciate our hard work. We are seen as robots not people." I thought this statement was so funny because the treatment they received and complained about from corporate is exactly how they treated me. No one saw the irony in this. At one point I wouldve loved to be hired on as a permanent employee and was always asking. "Let's get through winter first" would be their response. "You're a temp and because of that, I dont have to tell you anything." The last month was so hard. My disdain grew. I shut myself off so I couldnt be hurt anymore and just did my job, like a robot. My birthday was completely ignored. I'm not saying I wanted a cake but a card would've been nice. 
I dont know if my coworkers are nice and they're all just stressed, but that environment is completely toxic. I wasn't the first person to be doxxed and I won't be the last. Good luck semper.

I worked there for more than a year, starting as the closer (3pm to midnight shift). I kept trying to change shifts to the day shift, but management kept telling me that I was the only one that could do the closer job, placating me by constantly saying I'm so good at it, despite the fact that I hated it and wanted out. Eventually, after several months of bothering them, they gave me one day a week of a normal schedule, then after several more months, I eventually was working four day shifts and one night shift. Throughout my entire year of working there I always had at least one day on the night shift, despite my constant asking for it to end.

I only stopped doing the night shift on the day they fired me.

I have health issues that sometimes leave me debilitated and unable to work, and one of the few good things about the job was insurance. As I was using said insurance to address said issue, and keeping management very much in the know out of respect, they fired me. The reason they gave was poor performance, but by all measurements I far exceeded the weekly quota of appointments.

They will give you 5 dollars for booking an appointment that leads to a sale of 60,000 dollars. That's 0.008333% of the sale for your literal hours of hard work. You call some customers ten times (not exaggerating AT ALL) before booking appointments, not to mention how many horrible poor quality leads are shoved down your throat.

They will lie to you.

They will not give you days off that you request far in advance.

They will fire you for missing work due to poor health.

They do not value you.

Those in the call center area are overworked, under-appreciated, and underpaid.

DO NOT WORK HERE UNLESS YOU ARE MANAGEMENT OR AN INSTALLER. PERIOD.

My advice if you work here: Lay low, kiss everyone's butt, and find a job that actually values you as soon as you can.

This is the worst solar company in America! 
They dont care about the employees or the customer's they just want numbers and the lawsuits will eventually pile up and this company will crumble. 
I worked here for a year and the trouble starts with the  corporate office and trickles down to the branch managers, they don't know the industry and they hire complete morons as branch managers who know nothing about solar or managing a solar company and then they all scramble and cut each other's throats when jobs get screwed up and the wrong people always get fired. 
The sales people will sell anything no matter the time it will take and manpower to complete a lot of the projects and they make promises that can't be kept. You will take the blame for projects that take to long cause they were under bid due to poor planning. 
The designers are an absolute nightmare and every set of plans have multiple problems so you basically have to redesign most projects and they oversize wire on almost every job.
The communication with customers is pretty much non existent so expect an upset and confused  customer around 80% of the time. 
The region you work will be huge no matter what branch you work so the drive time is bad on most jobs. More drive time means less time to work on jobs and they push you to finish fast and that usually results in sloppy work especially when half your crew are some dipshit family members or friends of your branch manager so they don't care about quality work because they know they don't have to do much and there job is safe. 
The Branch mangers have absolutely no clue what they're doing and they lay all the blame down the ladder so if your just trying to get some quick experience for the resume and nothing more then I saygo for it otherwise run cause this ship is sinking fast!

Working for Semper Solaris was the most frustrating professional experience of my career. I was guaranteed a draw for my first weeks to bridge commissions—yet multiple payroll cycles passed without payment, only shifting excuses. What was promised in interviews and onboarding simply wasn’t honored.

The director of sales set a toxic tone: consistently dishonest, dismissive when questioned, and openly disrespectful to the team. Communication was chaotic, policies changed without notice, and accountability was nonexistent.

Family life was treated as an inconvenience. Despite clearly explaining my need to pick up my child from school at a set time, management repeatedly scheduled mandatory meetings and appointments that directly conflicted with my children’s schedule, showing no flexibility or basic respect.

It’s no surprise the company has no functioning sales team in Los Angeles County anymore—people left because of this poor management. Instead of experienced leadership, they hired an assistant manager who lacked industry knowledge and was unpresentable in front of customers, further damaging the team’s credibility.

If you value integrity, timely compensation, and a workplace that respects both employees and customers, think twice before joining Semper Solaris. No paycheck is worth the deception, disorder, and lack of professionalism I experienced here.

Hired for appointment setting position but they lied in job posting.

Position is actually for marketing calls to people to get solar and people just hang up on you after hearing solar name. 
The job requirement  and in interview they say people will call you and need to book appointment. 
The training is whole different process first week and second week mismatch 
And when after training when you start working they ask you need to make 100+ calls and need to have 4 appointments per day and plus hourly activity should be increase every hour and on top of that no one answer the call
As per interview and job details no one mention that need to book 4 per day they say people will call you to book but Nooo you make calls and get appointments. And everyday they say it's different now its slow so its hard to get Idk what will they do by winters they will shutdown by winter 
They hire new people group of 5 fire you if you dont pass first week with 80% and second 3rd week they fire more. And by the end of 3 months they will definitely fire you even if ur doing everything will just give you ur performance reason and fire.  The main reason to fire they dont want to give any benefits after 3 months so they just let you go and hire new ones 
Please dont waste your time and energy on this one 



Unfair practices, and unrealistic expectations. This is the most stressful job I’ve ever had. And the fact that I work from home and I’m still stressed out  says a lot. 

They don’t care about the quality of your work. If you make enough appointments you’re a star in management’s eyes. They say we don’t cold call but we technically do, 95% percent of the time you’re going to be making voicemails or people hang up once they hear “solar”. They get leads by using ads that advertise as free solar when reality there is not.  They expect 5 appointments a day, which is unrealistic due to “leads” never answering their phone. The top agents cut corners to get their appointments for the day. And if you let management know they literally don’t care. Doesn’t matter how great you do. If your quota isn’t met in a week then they write you up. And “re-train” you. Makes every agent compete with each other and not feel as an actual team. I feel like I’m playing a video game called “ get appointments” every time I clock in. Also during our weekly huddles you can tell some supervisors do not like each other. It’s sad. Please don’t waste your time. I know it’s tempting due to working from home but save yourself the stress. 

What is the best part of working at the company?
AWSOME training,  PTO ,  Collabrative,  Team spirit,  This is a company that does care for its people

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Your role can change at the drop of a hat,  we are all a bit overworked,  there was significant favoritism and a bit prejudice towards people some people were allowed to behave any way they chose no matter who it offended and failure to investigate it while others were reprimanded without queation

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
The work environment was amazing and happy at times.  When the pressure got turned up it became a bit toxic

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Answering emails and getting emails to the right department to help. Completions of reports.   Supporting the over seas team when required.  Supporting sales and call center.   Contacting the customers to confirm there appointments for outside sales.  Identify and troubleshoot problems before they happen.  Supporting all the members of my team.  Making sure leads are properly qualified.

What is the best part of working at the company?
My fellow coworkers were nice and we werw all in a bad situation so it bonded us. 

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Management would conduct cullings  if they were not getting the results they wanted. Instead of looking at their own failings. They would hold meetings and fire 3/4 of the installers. 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
The wirk environment is stressful salesmen were selling systems to people whose HOA wouldn’t allow anything to be installed on the buildings. Design would design it in a way it violated the HOA and somehow when a coordnator or an installer couldn’t make it happen the blame was on us and we cost thw company money instead of the salesman or deaio team who did not listen to the customer about the HOA requirements in the first place. 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Clock in wordlessly start work meep my head down HOPE no one notices me. Watch the clock carefully if you are late clocking in or out you are written up. I set alarms. Work til end of shift once in my car breathe a sigh of relief for making a through another day.

What I was told before accepting an offer was nothing like what I experienced while being employed here. Employees were treated so poorly and are constantly being hit with verbal and written warnings. There was not a week someone was not being trash-talked by management or being fired from the company. If someone was absent for 2 days, it's likely they were fired and some shady story would surface as to why they are no longer fit for the company. There was little room for growth and no emphasis on formal training or onboarding which resulted in employees being confused about the workflow and the constant changes in this company's method of operation.  Upper Management was extremely "clicky" and talking to your direct supervisor about anything meant you spoke to everyone in every department. Lastly, the work environment was deplorable and unsanitary, and was only cleaned for special occasions (ex. special visitors or media). Employee morale was incredibly low because everyone felt as though the company did not care and there were no efforts to change this narrative. Personally, it was my absolute worst work experience and I certainly would not recommend it.  

Excessively micro managed by corporate management team.
Given unrealistic deadline and expectations without proper staff, support, or tools.
Worked very hard and a lot of over time, yet upper management expected more.. making us feel unappreciated.
HQ is in San Diego, company expects Bay Area pricing and procedures to be the same as in San Diego. In the bay - higher pay and competitive prices for subs, different installation procedures, different inspections etc.
The main office space was referred to as the “bull pin” an open room concept. This layout made it hard to work when everyone is sitting right by each other constantly on the phone.
At times that caused toxic work environment, with personalities not meshing well together.
We were not allowed to move into other offices to break up the room. Upper management insisted on everyone staying on same room, even though other rooms were vacant in the office.

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
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