- Obvious growing pains of a growing company(Staffing, Curriculum, Organization, Wages).
- You must agree to a 2 year contract, with severe penalties if broken.
- You will be getting paid minimum wage for the duration of training until you are deployed onto a project.
- Housing people could be better in terms of where you are housed in relation to those you are training with. The company housing is not uniform across the board.
- May be difficult to commit during and after training if you have a family to consider. More suited towards recent graduates with little to no ties.
With all the positives I laid out before, naturally there has to be some negatives. As I said before, I am forever grateful but I am also forever honest.
To begin, Revature is of course entering this new field (at least to me) of filling that talent gap in the tech space. So with any growing company you have your growing pains. From my experience those included, but were not limited to, under staffing (could have been an outlier this time but who knows), lack of consistency within the curriculum/training program and low wages for the trainees.
Coming from college I am used to having a set agenda for each semester laying out all the topics I will learn and am responsible for learning. So that was very difficult to adjust to coming into this training program. The lack of consistency within Revature added to the difficulty of the process as a whole. There were multiple times topics were planned to be discussed on a certain day or week but never were. We ourselves would then have to go and learn the material on our own on top of everything else.
Being paid minimum wage sucks. I know we are not actually producing anything as we are being trained but I still believe trainees and associates should be paid more of a living wage. As a recent college graduate, I'm used to being paid the minimum and surviving off the minimum. I can only imagine how difficult it could be for adults with mortgages and children they have to worry about. The least Revature could do is up it to at least $2 above whatever the minimum wage is or provide free lunch because food is expensive.
The last thing someone should consider before committing to this process is the fact that you have to be willing to give up ~2 years of your professional career. Again, this is easier if you just graduated college, don't have any serious commitments and can't really find a job. This is probably perfect for you if that's the case. Although, if that is an issue along with the fact that you literally have no say in where you get sent to within the United States, find something else. If you are a Comp Sci major with a fat resume littered with real world experience, this is not for you.
