FDM Group reviews

3.1

52% would recommend to a friend

(3,960 total reviews)
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Rod Flavell

55% approve of CEO

34% positive business outlook

FDM Group has an employee rating of 3.1 out of 5 stars, based on 3,960 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 Informationstechnologie industry (3.9 stars).

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1.0
Jul 15, 2021
Recommend
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Pros

-Possible exposure to blue chip companies

Cons

-Terrible pay -Low 401k match -$30,000 bounty if you break the 2 year contract within a year, $20,000 bounty if you break the contract within your second year

1.0
Feb 8, 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Good office buildings Some genuinely nice colleagues

Cons

Toxic culture of bullying - staff bully, intimidate, ostracise and gaslight colleagues. This is done with impunity due to offender's favouritism with senior board members. Repeated complaints to HR and management generally fall on deaf ears. Frequent sexism - despite all FDM profess to do in the name of diversity and inclusion, CIS white male staff members frequently make sexist and derogatory comments about women. Casual racism and discriminatory speech - expect to hear CIS white male internal staff members voicing extremist right-wing and sectarian views, and mock the behaviours of individuals from minority and LGBTQ+ backgrounds. Results don't matter - those who make the most noise often receive recognition for the work undertaken by others. Nepotism – promotions offered to/positions of power held by family and friends of senior management regardless of these individuals actual experience or professional capability. COVID – senior board and management during the pandemic and lockdown have strongly encouraged the workforce to return to the offices, despite government advice against this. There was even a member of staff of died from complications from COVID 19 yet this was brushed under the carpet and a complete lack of empathy was shown.

2.0
Aug 19, 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

There is some potential (heavy emphasis on some here) to get a placement with a large company. If you do not come from a technical background, the training almost seems decent as a whole

Cons

Firstly, you only receive 5 weeks of tailored data engineering training - the rest is consistent with all other technical streams. This is a problem as the week on CSS/HTML was completely pointless and has no use for a data engineer. The training at time can be absolutely awful and is seriously lacking in quantity. You could honestly do better by just doing online courses on Udemy. I heard from other cohorts who trained entirely remotely during COVID that FDM did not even pay the licenses for software. They actually had to train using the free-trial versions of software, which is just ridiculous. The prospect of a placement within Data Engineering and Data Science is very slim. I was fortunate enough to get placed however, I have heard that no one has been placed within a stream-relevant job. The massively inflated training fees..... Ultimately, I would not recommend the Data Engineering stream at FDM - opt for something else that has higher employment rates.

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