QA reviews

- Some courses are bad as trainers were forced to teach technologies they weren't properly familiar with. One course was absolutely useless and felt like a complete waste of time, we were basically teaching ourselves the material (which was useless of course). - Towards the final weeks of training, several people are released based on assessments. We were not told it would have such serious consequences. In our group, 25% of trainees got released at this point (the lucky few) but ofc they weren't released they "left" due to a technicality. Same release ritual seemed to have taken place to the group previous but I'm unsure of the %. - We were straight up lied to at the assessment day, eg they said the period on the bench (time without a client) would be no more than a couple of weeks. Fast forward 13 weeks and I kid you not my backside is sore from all the bench time. They also mentioned salary raise after a year in the assessment day. There was no mention of this anywhere during the training. They also forget to mention that you will still have to interview for clients because there are so little of them ad so many of you. - After training finished, there was little communication from QA and when asked about clients the response was always "we have a few opportunities coming up", after all the foreplay no one came. All this while other trainees who were from other companies like Rakspace got clients straight away with a higher salary. Also within a month all the 25% that "left" already had higher paying jobs. -From our group about 25% got clients, they might have found QA alright but the other 75% certainly did not. We wasted 3 months after training waiting for a phone call that never came (you can leave but it would cost you £12,000). I don't blame the recruiters for lying because their salary is based on how many people they hire, I also don't blame the people responsible for the trainees because they might just be doing their job and if clients aren't coming then they aren't coming. But I am a bit disappointed they weren't transparent about things. -Finally, the structure of this company is very suspect. Feels like a legal scam. The recruiters recruit recruit recruit, so you have more trainees than clients and the trainee managers are left to deal with the trainees. I suspect working at any level that's not towards the very top is disheartening and unsatisfying at this company.

Training completely irrelevant to role Awful salary Threats of having to pay back an extortionate 12k for training that included one irrelevant certification. They are an in house trainer but it would have been cheaper to use an external provider. Refuse to break down training costs when asked Management ignore emails Don't believe you're getting a salary increase after a year, that's a lie. Find out that your contract is up and they want you to leave QA and move to the client from the client themselves. QA are happy for you to move to the client and then you don't have to pay back training but not for you to leave, interesting loophole isn't it. Stay away from this firm, many other consultancies do not charge graduates for training. I can't wait to see them take me to court and all the horror stories of contacts over the last few years will come out.