FDM Group reviews

I do not recommend coming to this company, opt for another consultancy firm. Why? You are not treated like a valuable asset of the company instead you are treated like a number and you are constantly reminded by senior management that you are dispensable regardless of how many years you have served at this place. There is no comradery between account managers and consultants. The account managers are only out for themselves and do not care what direction you'll like your career to move in. In the testing stream? they'll put you up for app support and BA roles and if you express a slight reluctance towards a certain role- off to HR you go for the sacking. There is a big divide between the sales team and consultants- to the point that sales team avoid bars consultants go to.HR only care about protecting the business there is no one to talk to "off the record" about concerns. Anytime you seem abit unsure about something or don't smile when they want to send your CV off to a role in Glasgow they try to intimidate you and then report you to HR. They don't care if you have any longterm commitments such as children, mortgage or health issues. As far as they are concerned you signed a contract even if those things arise after signing the contract. Constantly encouraged to go talk to account managers on the sales floor yet they dismiss you when you talk to them. Send emails and they ignore you. Refuse to disclose location and job description when they have a potential role. Approach them for actual roles you like on the status board and they lie to your face and say its been filled because they don't want to put you forward. So essentially for 2 years FDM own you.You have no say in what you want to do. Your 2 years start from when you are placed not during training! Some people have finished training (8-12 weeks) yet not placed and have been here 6 months. So thats a big portion of time to waste on this company. People might say as a pro you get a blue chip client on your cv. That is not always true, Most leave with no blue chip companies on their CVs at all. The only consultancy "firm" that forces you to sign in and out like children. The training is abysmal at best, you are treated like children throughout your lifetime at FDM and constantly being monitored. Can't even use any of the plugs in the office for personal laptops, Can't eat anything at your desks even a fruit (yet have witnessed trainers and sales team eating on their desk), bombarded with emails if your data bandwidth is too high, blocked from most websites. There's a reason they have a high turn over rate, You will find that after the 2 years contract is over most, if not all leave. There is absolutely no reason to continue to stay with the company as there is nothing gain. Why would you stay after 2 years when you are not guaranteed a role you like in a location you want and the 3rd year salary is not even up to market standard. You aren't even treated any better in 3rd year. If you have a bad experience with one of their clients in a placement or bad interview, they will take the client's side 100% of the time because they value them more.

1) Account managers could be a little bit pushy with trying to get their positions filled. They are in fact salesmen and their two targets are clients for positions, and candidates who will fill them. This being said, as long as you are a level headed person and you do not believe every single thing the account managers say, you should be fine and deal with them just fine. They like to use their British accents and smiles to charm everyone. Just be aware, if you go on an interview and get the position at a client's site, it's pretty much set in stone unless you want to fight a war changing utility companies. 2) Everyone keeps talking about account managers in previews reviews so I can quote another experience that did not happen personally to me but I saw it unfold. A trainee wasn't approached by account managers for interviews so that person decided to reach out to account managers to possibly get some interviews with clients. Because the position was outside the tri-state area, this person declined to move forward with the interview stages. Apparently the account manager didn't like that and spoke to the academy manager about how said trainee is leaving a baste taste in their mouth by declining interviews. Said trainee only declined one interview which was outside his tri-state area contract. 3) There is a separation fee if you decide to leave within the first two years voluntarily for the training provided and services given while placing a candidate. You could be fined 30000 for leaving the company the first year and it becomes a 20000 fine the second year. 4) Pay structure is weird with having a basically salary and a daily bonus rate. If you take paid vacation, bank holidays or have been furloughed due to a decision on a bank, you will be penalized by missing out on half of your pay for those days. 5) If you get sent back to the academy and sit there too long without getting placed at a different site, the company will let you go since you are a cost to them. That would be fine but HR will tell you during assessment day that pretty much "everyone" will be on site for 2 years straight and that cases of people being let go are few and far between, I know of 4 so far. 6) Another point on skewed numbers. During the assessment day, HR will claim that most people end get getting hired internally after their 2 year commit. I myself asked if they kept any kind of statistics or metrics on this and they told me they did not. Now I'm not a rocket scientist, but if you tell me something and have no evidence to back it up, the credibility of that statement is just about void.