Pros
I joined as a BI Trainee this year in Spring and I've been with them until 3 months ago. II usually don't review my employers, but somehow I strongly felt that I needed to review this company and inform the public about how bad this company is. No matter how hard I try, I am unable to find any pros except 1 or 2: 1) Good food and accommodation they provide at Quality Inn (for guys) and Holiday Inn (for few girls I guess). Accommodation and food are provided for trainees who are undergoing training and they provide these from the day trainee joins until they get project 2) Quality of trainers is decently good with well-read and knowledgeable trainers who, unlike the recruiters and marketing team, know what they are doing.
Cons
There's a lot to talk when it comes to cons: 1) TOTALLY DISHONEST- This is a very dishonest company where they lie about everything- right from the number of years of work experience on resumes, to the year of birth of the candidates (in order to accommodate the 7 years of work experience they claim the candidates have), and about your travel reimbursement. The candidates are forced to fake about their resumes. We were forced to prepare a resume with 7 years of experience that we didn't have and with projects and companies that we never have worked with. So, EVERY TRAINEE who interviews with vendors and clients for BI project has a fake resume. Be prepared to lie about everything once you join this company. Everything here is FAKED FAKED and FAKED! 2) WORST RECRUITERS WITH HORRIBLE WORK VALUES AND POOR COMMUNICATION SKIILS- The recruiting team is the worst here- Team of inexperienced recruiters with very poor communication and interpersonal skills. They will always be on top of our head, dictating us as to what we can do and what we cannot do. They make you feel suffocated and leave you with little liberty to do things your away, even personal things that you pursue after working hours. They almost interfere in every aspect of your life. For example, when a friend of mine had to go on a hospital appointment, the recruiter ordered him that he cannot go on personal work even though it is after working hours of 6 pm. How ridiculous is that! 3) TOO MUCH STRESS- There was another instance when I was called into the meeting room to discuss my personal habits. A couple of us friends hung out on a Tuesday evening and had very few couple of beers. The next day my recruiter called me into her cabin to advise me to not drink on weekdays. I was completely taken aback that I had to sit and discuss my personal life with her. Why does she have to advise me about what I can do or cannot do? My personal life hasn't affected my professional decorum in anyway, then why?! 4) BANKRUPTCY- Biggest issue going on right now is their bankruptcy. They filed bankruptcy in July but they did a great job of hiding from all the trainees. Once this news was out, almost 90% of the trainees left this company to pursue better opportunities. News is that all the current trainees have received legal notice warning about cloudeeva's bankruptcy which did scare a lot of the new trainees. 5) LACK OF PROJECTS AND LATE SALARY PAYMENTS- They are out of money and all the salaries and other payments are being delayed. Many friends of mine have complained that they didn't receive their travel reimbursement even after a year they joined. Due to the bankruptcy issue, now they aren't even getting any projects either. I know more than 10 people who have completed their Business Analyst and Business Intelligence training and who have been on bench since May (6 months).They completely neglect the people once they complete the training. 6) TAKE MONEY FROM YOU AND CHEAT PEOPLE- They have the culture of taking money under the name of refundable deposit and not returning them even after months and years of training. Our travel expenses that we incurred to travel to other states like Texas, California to take vendor interviews haven't been reimbursed. I had to beg them to return my money, even after which my recruiter didn't pay any attention to my request. A couple of us who were travelling to other places on personal trips had to pay $500 deposit in order for them to allow us to take a leave. They haven't reimbursed the money even today. We all still have the email threads as a proof where they asked us to put down the deposit without which they wouldn't grant us the leave. Shame on them! 7) USELESS MARKETING TEAM- Bunch of useless , incompetent people who do a horrible job in bringing job requirements and interviews for candidates. There was an incident where the marketer I was working with suddenly called me to say I have an interview in the next 10 minutes and yet they didn't give me the job description. Are they crazy? They schedule interviews for us and don't intimate us or atleast send us the job requirement. Just to get more vendors work with them, they even lied that I had cognos and VB experience when I had none. Because of this, I was left totally clueless in an interview when the interviewer asked me everything about cognos and informatica. In addition to that, they were so slow and not motivated at all. I used to get just 2-3 job requirements per week and just 1 interview scheduled for every 2 weeks. What are you guys doing? Get projects for us! We didn't work so hard just to sit on bench without interviews for months together.