Not Great - Anonymous employee Cook Systems Employee Review

1.0
Jan 11, 2019
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Nice/smart instructors good paced bootcamp covering full-stack essentials Good personal development portion (although it didn't have anything to do with programming and much of it was trying to guilt trip employees to exhibit liberal qualities, such as pointing out "under-privileged" populations and how when we can we should do everything we can to help them )

Cons

After graduating top of my class, they sold my contract to another company after 10 months of not finding me a job, the company they sold the contract to got me a 1 year contract as a programmer paying about $30k/year, after the contract ended they did nothing to find me more work, I contacted Cook Systems who had said they would find me another job after the contract ended, (and originally said they'd pay me between contracts) Cook Systems did nothing to find me additional work and didn't pay me between contracts like promised.

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Cook Systems Response
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Thank you for sharing your feedback, and we are sorry to hear that you had a less than stellar experience with us! It seems like there may have been a misunderstanding, as we are unable to sell a person's contract. We also have increased our pay quite a bit since you were here. At any rate, we appreciate you leaving a review, as it helps us to improve.

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