Canadian Solar Reviews

3.2

46% would recommend to a friend

(222 total reviews)
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Shawn X. Qu

70% approve of CEO

39% positive business outlook

Canadian Solar has an employee rating of 3.2 out of 5 stars, based on 222 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Canadian Solar employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Manufacturing industry (3.5 stars).

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222 reviews
2.0
Oct 4, 2015

Lots to Improve Upon

Anonymous employee
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Pros

- Great people - Lots of room for advancement within the office environment - Clean environment, great factory environment to work in, highly automated processes

Cons

- Poor upper management that lack planning skills and experience - Do not put the right people in the right positions, they do not promote or place the most qualified candidates in the positions - The company has a lack of/bad culture, they need to focus on this to improve employee morale

1.0
May 22, 2015

Poor Management

Anonymous employee
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Pros

If you are working in office, the environment is somewhat relaxed. In general the colleagues are nice except the Engineering directors. The free coffee provided in the cafeteria is of poor quality. It feels like you are working as a slave not as an employee. Simply put its a new form of slavery.

Cons

The company is on a track to lose. Technically competent people tend to leave the company within few months of joining. They are really facing a tough time to retain the competent people. The people working in the plants are not treated well. The management has not ethical and moral values. They are just concerned about how they can make more money. All the positive reviews on this website seems to be posted by their marketing department and by the staff who has been asked to put good reviews on here to keep their rating good as many new employee may check this website before accepting an offer. So if you are one of those, be ware that the good reviews are mostly put on by the employees on the direction of management. They also have this habit of bringing new employees from the companies who work as their contractors or equipment suppliers. Beware that they may offer you a higher salary but once they have got what they wanted from you, they will kick you out.

1.0
May 13, 2015

Line worker

Recommend
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Pros

The people working on line are nice and factory is clean.

Cons

The worst job I have ever had! They pay minimum wage, standing in same spot on factory line for 12 hours everyday all day is very painfu and boringl. Never given 25 cent raise as promised every 3 months. The management is very lazy and mean, always yelling at people to work faster, calling them stupid and lazy. Factory stinks of chemicals and is very noisey and hot. If you are injured from constant repetitive, excessive physical demands and call in sick, you are fired and WSIB does not pay for you to recover. Most employees are Chinese immigrants that do not speak English and feel trapped and most people quit after a month, very high turnover.

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