Revature reviews

However, as good as the pros seem, there are several cons that are hard pills to swallow. * As part of your agreement to recieve the "free training," you are required to sign a two-year agreement requiring you to work for Revature for two full years (to "pay back the cost of training"), and you have no choice in the matter. If you don't sign the agreement, you are immediately kicked out of training, and sent home. If you break the terms of the agreement (quitting your job), you may be on the hook for the cost of the "free training" (around $10k) or face implied legal action. * The pay is well below market average, which is concerning given the required two-year agreement. I recieve approximately ~25% below market average. * You are given practically zero choice regarding who your end-client is, and where you end up once placed after training. * The relocation assistance is probably the worst that I have seen offered in the industry. Once placed with a client, you are given $500 relocation and up to $500 as a cash advance (to be deducted from future checks) to move wherever you got placed. Good luck moving to California from Virginia on a grand (half of which you need to pay back)! * The company bench policy is almost insulting. If, for whatever reason, the project you were assigned to comes to an end, you are expected to drop everything you have at the client location and move back to Reston, VA to be placed on the bench. On top of "Surprise, you have to come back to VA", everyone on the bench is paid MINIMUM WAGE (AS A SOFTWARE DEVELOPER). * Since the company refuses to provide any assistance with things like lease cancellation (in the event of project cancellation), they frequently remind new employees to seek monthly leases, which typically cost more. Good thing you are compensated fairly. Oh, wait. * The vacation policy sounds nice up front (I think I get ~15-20 days/year), but they don't tell you that you must use vacation time to pay for holidays (otherwise, holidays are unpaid). * No 401k matching.

You're basically just a number on a spreadsheet. At the end of three months of training, you interview with various companies with maybe some advance warning if you're lucky, and then, if you don't get that job, they make you pass a test to get more interviews. Once you are out there, good luck getting any of your benefits, and look forward to automated harassment about timesheets.