Thought it couldn't get worse - Software Developer FDM Group Employee Review

1.0
Aug 30, 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Training is not awful, but is available elsewhere without needing to sell your soul

Cons

A bunch of slimy scam artists. Pay for consultants is convoluted and structured to ensure you don't get paid the full salary and don't get the full raise they promised. Here is the structure - You get paid out an hourly rate plus a daily bonus. FDM only pays the daily bonus component on full days worked, so for example if you work a half-day on Friday and half day on Saturday, no bonus. If you take PTO, no Bonus. To top it off, the raise they promise you in the second year is just an increase to the daily bonus. Just another way to FDM has used the bonus to not pay employees what they deserve.

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Pros

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Cons

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1.0
May 13, 2026
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Pros

It is a job that pays.

Cons

They will promise you opportunities that don't exist. The company they contract you to will promise you work that you will not be assigned. I was a Java Consultant with a masters degree in Math and certificate in full stack and I was shoved into a manual testing position that required zero coding and constantly dangled automation in front of my face. When I was asked to look at Selenium, I studied it in some of the copious amounts of downtime i had and was reprimanded during the next meeting for 'wasting company time'. I moved from Texas to New Jersey for my first position. After contracts with the company were terminated, I was pulled off my assignment only to be abruptly fired for "lack of geoflexibility" despite willingness to move to several places they do business including NYC and even Denver. There is no accountability from them as the only response they give is "the decision is final". There is no way to appeal a blatant lie. Their company has no integrity and side with business majors over people that know how chemicals and physics and electrical components work just seem like bad life decisions. They will say you can reapply but they won't hire you. They'd full of it at every angle.

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