FDM Group reviews

- The contract is pitiful - You get paid such a little and are expected to work overtime without being compensated - The lock in contract fee is $30k which you have to pay if you want to leave the company at any stage - The contract breaking fee does not reduce in a linear way so you will be paying heaps towards the end of your contract - Sales managers force you into placements you don't want even though during hiring process we were explicitly told we still had a choice - Sales managers pretty much ignore you/forget about you once you are placed and they have earned their commission from you - Internal staff at FDM treat you like outsiders and have their own internal club so you never really feel like a part of a company, just another money making asset - During your academy time you get paid $52k then once placed $56k in your first year and $58k in your second - The culture is honestly quite toxic, you never feel comfortable in the office or academy and they have rules that they enforce which reminds me of being a child in primary school. - Rod speaks about how everything is focused on and around the consultants and providing us with opportunity but it really is a thinly veiled attempt to cover up a company who exploits you to pay the top guys handsomely Overall if you can get a start in your career another way or have any other opportunities, I recommend it. If you don't mind suffering for two years to get your foot in the door then FDM is for you.

I really would advise you against this, most 5 star reviews are from trainees who became trainers and internal staff. even the luckies consultants at the end of the day aren't happy with how they got treated, eventhough they got the opportunity. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ - Two-year commitment - Start out at $12/hr. or $15/hr. if you are in New York because the minimum wage is $15 - They give you a two weeks option to opt out but during that time they treat you well they give you longer breaks, you basically didnt need to use your own personal unpaid time. - After finishing the foundation courses, the pressure is unbareable. you have different courses to train for which usually takes a couple of weeks to learn but they do that in 3days and give you a huge assignment for the next two days of the week. they are always cutting days of training because there main goal is to send you out to a client. - You need to commit at least 20/25 hrs. of your own unpaid time to go over what you learned - I can see this being a pro but for me it’s a con. you have a zoom and Microsoft teams meeting depending on the trainer and spend around 9hrs of your day doing that. which sucked because some trainer did whatever they wanted. started class at 9:30 and finished at 6:00. you get 1-hour of unpaid lunch and two paid 15 minute breaks at 11 and 3. Just like that your day is over. - After the foundation classes which includes unix and sql with a project at the end. shi* gets real. three days of web application and boom its create your own website from scratch. - Very Fast Paced, unless you are really knowledgeable in Java, you are going to struggle to follow fellow trainers. Every trainer is different some are good and some are bad. I had one trainer who went over things in two days and asked the trainees if we had questions? most of the class doesn’t even understand the chapter enough to ask a questions. He then threw a project at us and said you have three days figure it out. if you fail a project they tell you to fix it on your own time. - They have their own way of shaping you into becoming what they want you to sound. They have a thing they call the S.T.A.R method, situation, task, action and result. They would ask you tell me about a project you worked? tell me about a difficult time while working with a group setting? It ends up being a scripted version of you they want to hear. - if you fail Quality gate three times, they let you go without any fees. - Academy Managers treat you like a piece of meat. Their salary depends on you finding a contract, after that it’s hard to get in touch with them. - No control on placement (Which means you can be thrown anywhere). - if you don’t find a job after training, you will be tasked in doing some development project for $12/hr. until you get placed. - If you are lucky enough to find a job you want when training is done you get paid $44.5K (around $32,000 salary and + $38 a daily bonus for working that day). so if you are sick you aren’t going to get that daily bonus. They charge the client 3/4 times more than they pay you. - if you don’t pass your interview with a client a couple of times they let you go and threaten to sue you for $30,000 for the training they provided. - The benefits are not worth it; you will be paying out of pocket for most medical expenses.