Toxic Company Culture - Information Security Consultant Sparta Global Employee Review

Hello and thank you for leaving a review. Sparta Global has worked hard to build relationships with prolific employers to give our Spartans the opportunity to access roles without prior experience or STEM education - its great to see deserving people in positions they might not have otherwise been able to access. We are incredibly disappointed - and shocked - to read some of your other comments. We are an approved Inclusive Employer company, the only B Corp hire train deploy company and have won a number of employment awards - all of which have included significant audits of our company culture, and interviews with countless staff. Our management team is small and includes our two co-founders who started Sparta Global with a genuine desire to help people from under-represented backgrounds access work in tech. They have never responded to Glassdoor reviews as you suggest. Our training was forced to be remote during the covid pandemic, but it proved to be incredibly popular and enabled us to offer technology training and careers to communities all over the UK - not just close to our physical training academies in London and Birmingham. We would love to run more in-person training sessions in the future, but our Spartans have told us they prefer training remotely, but visiting the Academy a couple of times during the training duration. We are happy to be accommodating of people's individual learning needs. Our training has won a Princess Royal Training Award for quality, and is led by an in-house faculty of experienced IT professionals. Sparta Global is an equal opportunities employer - it is entirely true and accurate that we hire based on attitude, aptitude and potential, and you do not need prior experience or STEM education. However, the training is intense and everyone must keep up in order to succeed. It is not fair to our Spartans if they complete the training and are assigned to a role, if they are not up to par with others they will be working with. We have regular quality gates during the training period to assess peoples' progress. In terms of relocation, all Spartans agree to potentially relocate if a role for them becomes available. This is part of the application process and all Spartans agree to do this when they join us. We do not force people to move and we have never charged for training. Training has always been free.