FDM Group reviews

3.1

54% would recommend to a friend

(3,948 total reviews)
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Rod Flavell

56% approve of CEO

35% positive business outlook

FDM Group has an employee rating of 3.1 out of 5 stars, based on 3,948 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The FDM Group employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Tecnologías de la información industry (3.9 stars).

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4K reviews
1.0
Nov 15, 2013

Horrific

Recommend
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Pros

Free Coffee Hot Chocolate (Although I hear no longer available to trainees only HR & sales).

Cons

Stay away… because although they may seem reasonable during the first 14 days (grace period), you will (if stupid/lazy enough to stay) afterwards find that FDM are a bunch of ruthless, unprofessional and criminal minded group of creatures. You are ‘trained’ (For 21k) by trainees who couldn’t get placed—some of the time and the rest of your training hours you spend self-studying (for FDM “qualifications”) , they treat you like children and will threaten you and lie. Clients take on FDM for the mere fact that consultants actually agree when they sign their employment agreement that they will work ridiculously long unpaid over-time hours (they don’t show you this clause in the training agreement, but before you get place you must sign the employment contract which you would have in effect already signed via the training agreement -if that makes sense). In theory one can work for their clients after the 2.5 years- but only if they are willing to pay a ridiculous amount. You can get place anywhere, with anyone and surprisingly doing anything (not related). Any fool can get in and they even give you £500 if you recommend someone who joins (and if they feel you can’t cope –as had happened to a poor female colleague of mine- they terminate the agreement and ask you for the full training fees) … stay away. In conclusion their model is set up to exploit and milk as much as possible from poor graduates. Stay away. By the way: every single positive review here is by their sales team (who make a hell-load of money from consultants) and are fake as well as the “awards” which they bribe/buy which may come as a surprise. Stay away please.

2.0
Apr 27, 2017

Be careful

Recommend
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Pros

Office location, good benefits package.

Cons

Salary, office culture, account management team

1.0
Sep 2, 2012
Recommend
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Pros

The technical training itself is good although much of it was not instructor led during my time there. The office/training facility on Wall St is nice.

Cons

While most of the training is good, the training FDM provides to familiarize trainees with the finance world is inadequate. They did not seem to have anyone qualified enough to teach finance basics during my time there. Important to stress that FDM does not guarantee you employment, they shop your resume/CV to companies and facilitate interviews. They are supposed to keep on putting your resume out there until you get placed. As someone in management told me: "it's our job to get you a job". In my case, I did get some interviews but was never placed. After my sign off from training (4 months in), I no longer had to attend the training facility every day. From this point on FDM never contacted me for anymore interviews. No reason was given for this, the interviews just stopped coming in for me. There can be many legitimate reasons why this occurred; but none of the sales people or anyone in management ever bothered to offer an explanation. They just continued to ignore emails sent to them. I have witnessed many trainees get placed with companies so It is obviously not a scam; it just appears to me that the process does not work for everybody.

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