Might not place you in a Software Role - Trainee Software Developer FDM Group Employee Review

2.0
Feb 22, 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

They will almost certainly find you a job (but not 100%) Great training team

Cons

In my group of 11, 2 got placed in a software role and the rest got placed in other roles. As this was a Softeware Trainee Graduate role, I was expecting to get a role in that field... The 'Sales teeam' did not care about finding a role for you that was suitable, they just want you in and out the door as fast as possible. You will be messed arround. I was initially on Java, they sent me to an interview (which they believed was for a Java role). In the interview they told me it was in fact C#, offered me the job, then FDM changed me to the C# track. A week later they pulled the offer and I was back on Java and had to catch up from a week of missing the course.

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