SynergisticIT Java Developer reviews

3.8

93% would recommend to a friend

(9 total reviews)

Avinish Singh

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90% positive business outlook

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4.0
19 Oct 2015

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Pros

have worked with them for 3.6 years now and they have stood by me in thick and thin when i was almost out of status they helped me remain in status. they expect you to remain with them for 1 year after you get your h1b approval . i have know my own batch people who have used and manipulated them till date i have not seen them doing anything harmful to anyone. after people manipulating them they bought changes to their contracts . Training is good and marketing was excelent when i took training. They have best intentions for their employees . i read lots of recent bad reviews and i doubt their authenticity and question the people writing the reviews if they ever had experience with any other consulting firm and if they are aware how other consulting companies operate. i read them being greedy and going for higher rates ...i highly doubt it as i know their priority is more towards longer projects and i have seen people being sent to longer projects even though when getting lower rates. my upbringing taught me to be thankful to people who help you and never forget them and for synergistic people did that. i dont know if they write their own reviews but most of which is written in positive reviews is true and i can attest to it..whatever i read in negative reviews seems to be borne out of frustration, sarcasm and vengeance rather honest review and feedback..i wonder the psych of people writing those reviews and how successful they have been as they dont seem to be very people friendly and one thing i learnt during my experience is your interpersonal skills, being emphatic, friendly and having a good personality helps you more than your coding skills and believe me on that i know other consulting firms stuffing 9 people in a 2 bedroom apartment, proxy interviews and printout of questions given in the form of training. reason i can say this is because i myself was subjected to such consulting firms before i joined synergisticit and at least they treat you like human beings. i being more experienced now know that they earned money from me in first year at the same time they spent a lot of money on me too. after first year they put me on percentage and i made more money than my colleagues in full time positions and i am putting this rview down as i intend to move on to a real big company which i always wanted to join which is headquartered in mounatin view and i want to say path was not easy but journey was enjoyable

Cons

contract which they have is strict and i came to know now they made more changes to enforce compliance if someone tries to leave before 1 year of getting placed or leaving after training. i came to know as someone who was in the batch after me contacted me as someone contact him about getting out of the contract and leaving in middle and had been sent court notice by their employment attorney and he had to travel from nj to california for court appearance and had to finally pay the contract violation and attorney fee which were like 30k which he was paying in installments otherwise his immigration situation would have been in trouble due to a civil and court proceedings showing up on his background check and his immigration documents. my advice is to just do a 1 year employment and then move on if you want to explore greener pastures to be on safe side as work is stressful and then court hearings are even worse. traing may be tough for electric or other backgrounds so join if you have coding background otherwise you will be in training for 4-5 months

1.0
31 Aug 2015
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Pros

1.) You learn to listen or pretend to listen to the many lectures of management. 2.) You learn to work hard, so that you can get out of there as quickly as possible 3.) You do learn Spring and Hibernate, but then again there is YouTube

Cons

1.) No in house internet, oh and no furnishing -> Sleeping bags on the floor + 5 people in an apartment on average 2.) Constant surveillance, be it via tracking ip or via cameras in the office (which is why there is no internet in the apartment) or HR listening in to your conversations 3.) Given a stipend in the form of gift cards, but only for those close to the office as management is too lazy to travel 5 min by car to pick them up from better grocery stores 4.) Management doesn't trust candidates 5) Also training takes 4 to 5 months, so if there are better alternatives please take them.

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SynergisticIT Response
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Hi thanks for your detailed response and feedback. We value the opinions of people posting reviews We avoid being defensive but when people say our training is comparable to youtube we have fire coming out of our ears :) there are only 3 possible reasons: 1) You were a competitor who sent someone for investigative journalism so you got superficial facts and then posted the review 2) You were a candidate who paid the penalty of $10000 for violating our training agreement after taking training and had to pay a fine so are writing this review. 3) you did not make the cut and were rejected for our training program we know our java training is as of now if not the best amongst the best in the US We have candidates who are ready to pay us $20k to just get training with us but we still reject them as We pick and choose candidates which are suitable for our clients Lets address the pros and cons 1) lectures of management given -- we had cases wherein candidates did certain mistakes at client sites and we have a responsibility towards anybody trusting their future to us. How to take interviews , what not to do at client sites, proper behavior, how to work in a team, what things to avoid saying , etc. We have experience of more than 10 years, 10000 interviews and placing more than 650 candidates on projects and to some it may seem like lectures but for some it will be knowledge transfer. Even if it helps some people we want to do that 2) there is always YouTube for spring and hibernate--yes there is but you tube does not provide you assignments, checks your assignments, corrects and helps you back and help you when you go to work on a client site. You just don't learn spring HIbernate you learn core java, JSP Servlets, Design patterns, J2EE, EJB, AngularJS, JavaScript, JUnit, PL/SQL, Agile/Scrum, Struts, Webservices rest and Soap, JMS, JSF and the list goes on. We also have more than $50,000.00 worth of books in java in our library which I believe you wont find in youtube :) . Hey and we also have 100mbps internet in our labs which you can use for accessing youtube (no movies please) . We also administer industry leading tests which cost us $300 per candidate. What we cover in our training if someone tries to achieve by reading books and watching youtube videos it would take the person maybe couple of years to do that. The reason we are able to do it fast is that we specialize in Java training and we have been doing for more than 6 years. We also get regular feedback from our clients and we customize our training accordingly so our candidates get the best training there is Cons: No internet as we have 24/7 access to our computer lab and we want candidates to go to guest house to sleep and relax and come to office fresh. We don't want them to be up all night watching movies and be late for sessions. We don't charge anything for the training and its free. We pay 3000$ Per guest house for a 2 bed 2 bath 1000 sq feet guest house and 5 people stay in it. It is a 10 minute walk to our office and people bike too. Our guest house are cleaned regularly by cleaners. We spend almost 15k on each candidate by the time the training is over. Training takes 2 months not 4-5 months . In exceptional cases the training may take longer. We We have cctvs for safety and to ensure candidates are not playing video games and watching movies and disturbing other candidates with such activities. We cannot have people downloading movies using torrents and acting like highschoolers. Discipline is paramount and we might tolerate but such behavior can get a candidate fired from a client site. All the points mentioned above cannot take away the fact that we have all our candidates placed at Fortune 500 clients and our results speak for themselves. We are here to make people get the best training in java and get our candidates placed at the best clients. We are not perfect but we keep trying to be better for our candidates. One thing which no one would find is a person who took training at synergisticit and was a failure as we don't allow that to happen. Once again think of us like a private school with rules regulations and strict discipline and a code of conduct . We don't believe in shortcuts and never compromise on quality of our training For the person writing this review there is a lot of positivity in life embrace that and focus on positive things so much negativity is not good for your health both mentally and physically. We hope you start focusing on things which make you achieve good things in your life and become a better person and we wish you good luck. Let us know if you need any help we are here to lend an ear and help you .
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