Description In spite of its name, products from Solar Turbines are not powered by the sun. The Caterpillar subsidiary designs, manufactures, and services industrial gas turbines. Its products are used in oil and gas production, natural gas transmission, and crude oil pumping systems, as well as for electrical and thermal power generation. In addition to gas turbine engines, gas compressors, and gas turbine-powered compressor sets, Solar Turbines offers mechanical-drive packages and generator sets. Services include financing, installation, and aftermarket parts support. The company, which sells and services its products from some 40 locations worldwide, exports more than 70% of its products from the US.
Solar Turbines has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 620 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Solar Turbines employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Energy, mining, utilities industry (3.7 stars).
Overall, 74% of employees would recommend working at Solar Turbines to a friend. This is based on 652 anonymously submitted reviews on Glassdoor.
68% of job seekers rate their interview experience at Solar Turbines as positive. Candidates give an average difficulty score of 2.8 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) for their job interview at Solar Turbines.