Pros
-Provides Health, Dental, and Vision plans -GREAT place to work if you are a masochist -Some amazing people who you will have a deep connection to do to the trauma bonding that takes place -You will learn what a bad HR department looks like and what a bad Leader looks like. Very important if you are fresh out of college. -A stepping stone job for people fresh in their career (just don’t stay more than a year because this isn’t the kind of company where you can “build a career”. It is only a job to get you experience so you can go work for a proper company) -Free food! But you will gain weight from stress eating. :(
Cons
To summarize my time here I will use an analogy. Solera is your toxic, verbally abusive ex-boyfriend/girlfriend. Here is my testimonial to back up this comparison: The mentality from executive leadership is “everyone is replaceable, worthless, and you are nothing without us”. I, as well as my whole team, have been told on numerous occasions that we are replaceable and don’t matter. That they will just backfill us without a second thought. They state this even though leadership never tried to backfill people and simply added more work onto their already burnt out team. Ingraining this idea that no one in the team matters and can easily be replaced caused many people to not even try to leave as they all felt like no other company would want them because they felt so worthless. I myself have never been so unconfident in my skills as an HR professional before working here. It’s a great way of keeping workers from leaving, but it is vile and wretched to hurt people like this just because leadership doesn’t want to lead with service but rather lead with destructive authority in order to inflate their unearned ego. I, and again many of my team members, have been gaslit and manipulated to think that their issues are unreasonable/don’t exist. I have been told many times that something didn’t occur even though I was there to witness it with my own eyes. I came to leadership multiple time about how everyone in the department is miserable and hates working here. I was told I was over exaggerating and that if cultural change needed to happen then I have to initiate it as cultural change starts at base level, not leadership. I know that this is absolutely garbage, because in college my courses focused heavily on cultural development/organization behavior. Change starts with leadership buying in and leading by example. Anyone who has taken even basic org behavior classes would know that. Leadership gives empty promises. They will give you the work of an HRBP even though you are a coordinator making $50,000 (2 levels below HRBP). They set this up as a “test to prove yourself” before they officially promote you. When they do follow up with a promotion, you have already been doing the work of a Generalist/HRBP for months. They will offer the title of Generalist with an Abysmal offer around $65,000 or so. This is extremely low for a Corporate HR Generalist role, but they will lie and making it seem like they are paying above market. They get away with this because Solera hires people straight out of college with little working experience, so the worker doesn’t know any better and are easier to manipulate. I could go on but this is getting long. I truly hope this review helps. If you are desperate for benefits/cash or a fresh graduate just needing to get some experience under your belt, then take the role since you are in need. If you have experience and are looking for a good opportunity with a company you can thrive with, move along.