Consultant from Manchester QAC - QA Consultant QA Employee Review

2.0
Oct 6, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

Nice people, accommodation provided, 1 hr social time on fridays (drinking, drinking games,"free"drinks), Very nice trainers

Cons

The contract is truly awful, there is a backout window of 4 weeks, they set you on a trivial group project (EA) for two weeks with no real goal other than to make friends, next two weeks is easy, after the 4 weeks is up, they start treating you awfully First 12 weeks is no pay until they get you a client, and then they ship you out, if you quit they ask you to pay £1000 per week at the academy, for training costs, (they left us in a room with a computer with a gcse style computing project to do) no real training this 12K is held over your head for 24 months, stopping you from quitting. any time between clients, you are on a base rate of 15K, and are expected to be able to move to different ends of the country on a weeks notice, its tough.

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QA Response
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We do work hard to make sure both the graduate training programme and subsequent projects based on-site at clients set our employees on a great career path into IT consultancy. We feel – and this is reflected in many of the reviews here on Glassdoor – that in the majority of instances this is achieved. It would be great if we could discuss you particular situation, both to see how we can improve your experience but also take on board any lessons to make sure we keep to the high standard we set. You can do this by emailing QACfeedback@qa.com.

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