Software Developer - Graduate Programme - Anonymous employee FDM Group Employee Review

1.0
Dec 6, 2017
Anonymous employee
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Pros

I was placed on a contract at a good company.

Cons

You can be placed literally anywhere in the UK with less than a weeks notice. Company does not care for its employees, just its margins. The pay is not relative to the position you could be placed in and thus, I ended up vastly under paid. After being relocated, I was given 2 weeks to find my own accommodation. As this was not possible, due to demand in the area, I had to fight for an extension to stay in a hotel. You are forced to do time reporting each week, which has to be signed off my a line manager. This just screams lack of trust in employees and is a sheer waste of time. The training and trainers are overall pretty poor unless you already have some expertise, which defeats the purpose of their training programs.

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