Thrifty springs to mind - Graduate Developer FDM Group Employee Review

2.0
12 Aug 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

You have experience a large company with the potential to be kept on there after the two years. Basic training in a variety of areas

Cons

They are rubbish to work for. 1 The training is pretty awful. It starts off well but as you near the end of your training you are forgotten about and abandoned for the newer recruits. I feel like I was pretty badly prepared for what i'd face in the workplace. I've been on site 6 months no and only just up to standard i'd say 2 They give you the absolute minimum of everything, 20 days holiday a year, no overtime, £21000 salary. 3 they don't adjust salary on location. I almost ended up in Newcastle but am actually in London on the same £21000 id have got in Newcastle. Rent is really not the same down here as up north! 4 They really don't care about where / what you want to do. You get sent to work for the first company you are put in front of that says yes.

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CEO approval
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Pros

Will get opportunities to work with financial clients,

Cons

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1.0
13 May 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

It is a job that pays.

Cons

They will promise you opportunities that don't exist. The company they contract you to will promise you work that you will not be assigned. I was a Java Consultant with a masters degree in Math and certificate in full stack and I was shoved into a manual testing position that required zero coding and constantly dangled automation in front of my face. When I was asked to look at Selenium, I studied it in some of the copious amounts of downtime i had and was reprimanded during the next meeting for 'wasting company time'. I moved from Texas to New Jersey for my first position. After contracts with the company were terminated, I was pulled off my assignment only to be abruptly fired for "lack of geoflexibility" despite willingness to move to several places they do business including NYC and even Denver. There is no accountability from them as the only response they give is "the decision is final". There is no way to appeal a blatant lie. Their company has no integrity and side with business majors over people that know how chemicals and physics and electrical components work just seem like bad life decisions. They will say you can reapply but they won't hire you. They'd full of it at every angle.

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