Fantastic training, people, and opportunities - Devops Engineer Xccelerated (Netherlands) Employee Review

The trainings they offer can be interesting if you are new to the job. If you already have experience they are not that useful. It depends on your background

I crossed Europe to go work for them. I initially refused and they offered me more money and a place to stay for the first month. They told me they were sure they had clients for me to work with. When I came there there was no client. I stayed idle one month and then they fired me. And this same experience happened before, to another person I met while I was there. In my opinion the way xccelerated works is that they hire people even if they are not sure they have a project for them. If they manage to get you a client, then you're fine. If not, you're fired at the end of the probation period. And they hire someone else, to be ready just in case they find a client. The person who was fired before me warned me of this. In fact I spent the trial period interviewing for other jobs knowing the chances of being fired at the end of the month were getting higher and higher. During the time I was offered their guesthouse, instead of looking for a house to stay (as I was supposed to) I had to look for another job. When I started my month there nobody explained anything. The manager gave a quick overview but nothing more. For example, I was told there was a portal for time report but they never worried to tell me how to log in and change hours. I had to ask my peers. They forgot to add me to their channel on Basecamp, so I was not aware of their communications. I found out about the existence of this channel just one week before being fired. Their IT is probably on low budget. I asked to have some headphones for the interviews but I was told to use my own. I think they have a tendency to lie and thus can hardly be trusted. Here are some examples: - They told me they had a client for me ("especially in my case because I had a skill with an AWS service that not many people had") but they didn't. In fact, I never actually interviewed with any client - During the hiring interview they told me they did not offer support for relocation. After I refused their offer and raised some concerns about the relocation they told me they would offer me a guesthouse to stay for the first month. They told me it was actually available for just 3 weeks but they would pay me a hotel for the other week. However they never booked the hotel. So they lied about the relocation support, because they actually have a guesthouse. And they lied about covering the expenses of the week that the guesthouse was not available - They told me they would pay a certain realtor company to find me a house. But they were never interested in how my house search was going. Which makes me think they never planned on paying the agent. They probably just said that to make me accept their offer. Of course they also knew they were going to fire me...so why bother? If they hadn't fired me, I would have resigned as soon as I had found another job These of course are just some facts about my personal experience with them and my opinions and thoughts about it Good luck in case you already accepted an offer from them

Training, nice office and flexibility to work from home

No 13th month in salary