FDM Group .NET Developer reviews

3.0

99% would recommend to a friend

(4 total reviews)
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Rod Flavell

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4 reviews
3.0
3 Nov 2021
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Pros

- Helps get work experience from big name companies. - Eases the transition from Uni or College to Work. - Provides additional training (subject to a 2 year minimum work contract) and now pays a base wage while training. - Expects consultants to be Geo-Flex but can be negotiated if you have a good reason to limit your role options. - Small benefits are offered if you remain past your two years, and some more if you pass 5 years.

Cons

- Could do with revising how they interact with and treat consultants with existing medical conditions. - Not all roles offered to consultants are always tailored for their training and experience, and right to refuse can be difficult sometimes if FDM lack trained staff for the role. - Salary on-site is additional to a base wage. The additional amount (a daily addition for work) is based on the role you take. This can make it very difficult to find roles with increasing salary to go hand in hand with your increasing experience. - FDM do not offer any core employment package beyond a salary, no benefits or health (beyond the occasional shares award to ). This may be different if you are going in as internal staff rather than as a consultant.

1.0
25 Jun 2016
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Pros

You're able to add to a professional network if you haven't got one. Can be an ok boost into IT in the banking and finance industry, if that's what you want.

Cons

You are a commodity. The end product is you. The account managers see this, the academy staff see and know this, and act and imagine that you don't, and try and deflect this when its brought up. Insulting to the intelligence of their "trainees". The business model and ethos in the offices is incredibly poor. As an unpaid trainee, you are held to a higher standard of dress and timekeeping than the staff that they pay. Training isn't about actually learning and understanding - it's about short term memory and regurgitation. You would be as well off to just read the powerpoint slides yourself as well as the training material. The trainers just know what module they're teaching - and may themselves have C# experience, but had no idea about the structure of the course when I did it. It was like they were seeing the slides for the first time as well as my group. If they're as blind to the course structure as students are, they shouldn't be teaching it. But they are. If you can already prove you're able to do something (I came from a web design background) you are still forced to go through a menial course - which frankly - was outdated even for 2 years ago. The "cutting edge" training they provide is about as sharp as a soup ladle. The only benefit is that you're under duress to complete it, where you might not be if you were doing something similar at home. Have a look at codecademy.com, and then some business based literature on project management techniques and best practice. You'll be better off. The amount of money they value the course at £20,000 is based not on the value of the course - but how much money you will make FOR FDM Group as an external consultant, less any forecasted costs in enforcing you pay for it. I ended up working as an entry level dev, and spoke to some CS graduates who were hired straight form uni, who were earning about 1.5 times my wage. As a graduate. Don't work here. The contract is a prison sentence.

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Jonathan Young, CIO: "Thanks for your review and I am sorry to hear you do not feel the graduate programme has been of benefit to you. As mentioned in other responses, the training content is dictated by our clients’ needs. If the training was substandard, this would impact our clients working with us. During your training, you will remember having been asked every Friday for your feedback on that week’s training. I hope you voiced any specific concerns you had at the time so that we can/could address those concerns properly. I appreciate that you had your own background knowledge of web design. In all our courses there will be people with differing levels of experience and different backgrounds, but everyone is required to go through the same training to guarantee our clients a standard level of knowledge and skills. We cannot exempt certain people from courses as I am sure you will understand. You suggest that we could be more upfront about what we offer. We do try to be as transparent and upfront as possible. The salary and contract length are discussed openly throughout the recruitment process, shown explicitly in the contract and even presented in the form of a video and presentations during assessment. If you have suggestions on how we could be more explicit then I would be very keen to hear them. Finally, as a professional services provider, our business is people and we care very much about all of our staff, both internal and consultants. If there has been a time when you have been treated inappropriately by internal staff (as implied in your posting), please let me know (jonathan.young@fdmgroup.com) and I assure you that I will look into the matter personally."
4.0
28 Aug 2013

It was fun, exciting

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Pros

Great working environment, good people, opportunity to meets lots of professionals and work for different employers. Loved the parties

Cons

Waiting to get placed at a client site is not fun. Thankfully, I did not experience that. I was placed almost as soon as I finished training

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