Poor training and Lack of Opportunities - Trainee Consultant FDM Group Employee Review

1.0
4 Nov 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

The training doesn't look bad on your CV, and the trainers do provide sound advise on improving your CV.

Cons

The training can be found online and often for free. The trainers don't necessarily train you...you're often told to read through slides by yourself, have meaningless group tasks set for a 1/3 of the day, or watch videos that are available online and for free. Not exactly what was promised. We were told that hardly anyone went over their 90 day period but this is not the reality. FDM is struggling to post trainees to their clients; Brexit is the excuse, which could be the case. FDM hold charity events regularly and trainees are told to donate to a charity that FDM has selected. Seems like an odd policy to have unpaid trainees donating when FDM is profiting on the back of their desperation to find work. Also there is never any mention of how much FDM donates from its company profits.

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Pros

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Cons

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Pros

It is a job that pays.

Cons

They will promise you opportunities that don't exist. The company they contract you to will promise you work that you will not be assigned. I was a Java Consultant with a masters degree in Math and certificate in full stack and I was shoved into a manual testing position that required zero coding and constantly dangled automation in front of my face. When I was asked to look at Selenium, I studied it in some of the copious amounts of downtime i had and was reprimanded during the next meeting for 'wasting company time'. I moved from Texas to New Jersey for my first position. After contracts with the company were terminated, I was pulled off my assignment only to be abruptly fired for "lack of geoflexibility" despite willingness to move to several places they do business including NYC and even Denver. There is no accountability from them as the only response they give is "the decision is final". There is no way to appeal a blatant lie. Their company has no integrity and side with business majors over people that know how chemicals and physics and electrical components work just seem like bad life decisions. They will say you can reapply but they won't hire you. They'd full of it at every angle.

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