Trainee Tester Role - Trainee Tester bei Edge Testing Solutions: Mitarbeiterbewertung

1,0
20. Nov. 2018
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Co-workers are very nice and easy to get along with.

Kontras

Everything about the company. Firstly, the company falsely market themselves a lot. They advertise Software Tester Training programme and state that the pay is competitive with no clause attached, which is incorrect. The pay for the training programme is £17500. They state you can get pay bump quickly if you do the work. That’s a lie no pay bump. If you ask for pay rise and give evidences for the reasons they plain say NO with no explanation. In addition, if you try to leave before 6 months, you pay them back £3500. If you leave after 6 months and less than a year; you pay back £600. They claimed that’s the cost of the training. There is absolutely no training. We sat is class for like a week doing nothing and a lot of questions asked in the training was not answered because the trainer was incapable. NOTE: when they put you on client site. They don’t put you on as a Trainee software tester. They put you on as Tester with 2 years experiences and client looking at you like why don’t you know this things? Secondly, career advancement is almost impossible. If you don’t suck up to the management; you are totally not getting promoted. So they have few Test Leads and that’s not because they are experienced or good at what they do. They only got promoted because they sucked up to the management. In addition, they claimed there is ongoing training to staff members. They advertise training but when you apply for the training they don’t respond to your email. Furthermore, you are a money machine to them. So things like 1 to 1 meeting with your manager is done during your lunch break (which they do not pay for), Quarterly meeting, which apparently is compulsory and they don’t pay for is done during your personal time. Finally, I would advise stay away. I don ‘t think they will last anyway as one of their biggest client is slowly replacing them testers on site with another company due to the high staff turnover.

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7y
Thanks for the feedback, we regret that your experience in our Academy was not satisfactory in your opinion. Edge are proud of our Edge Academy scheme and our Investors in Young People Gold Award. Many of our trainees and their more senior colleagues quote the continued success of the scheme is down to strong mentorship and coaching, practical experience and continuous assessment. At Edge we try and offer our trainees attractive long-term opportunities and involve them in decisions about their future and direction of the company (this was part of the criteria for the Investors in Young People award). We believe it is right that graduate or trainee programmes have a financial tie in as it can be costly for companies to train individuals only to lose them before their new skills can be utilised and impact the investment in programmes in the future. Additionally, unlike many other graduate and training schemes Edge pay a salary from day one of employment and not after the completion of training. Edge offer fantastic opportunities for individuals who have a passion for testing to join a growing company and develop their skills. As our trainees’ experience grows and formal training is completed the salary increments do become greater. Around 30% of trainees have fast-tracked a graduated earlier than the 2 years as they demonstrated exceptional skills, motivation and positive behaviours both within Edge and with our clients.

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Kontras

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3,0
28. Nov. 2018
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Pros

Its hard to see any of the positives. Lets get one this straight, Edge are a Consultancy, therefore when an employee is at Client site then they do not have any control of any flexibility, ie start times, working from home etc. The staff make it work, they are good at their jobs and most of them are good to work with. Depending on the contract you do get some flexibility, work from home, start times etc The company pay for your qualifications, which is good and they do offer a semi decent in house training programme, with some proper control could work well. Good place to get some experience and then move on, experienced staff get payed well.

Kontras

Management seem to make up the rules as they go along to suit what they need and they sell it of "BUSINESS NEEDS", thats pretty much there get out of jail card. An example of this is travel expenses, some people get it some dont and they just make it up as they go along. The contract is 37hrs a week but they knowingly put you in client site who want a minimum of 37.5 hours a week, you are expected just to do it. When company have compulsory training / meetings you need to make the time back (they argue it was not there decision and its client) No Sick pay for first 4 days and then for 3 weeks full pay (not the worst thing but can live with that)

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7y
Thank you for taking the time to write a review. We are pleased that you pointed out that our training programme is good. You have recognised that we are a consultancy and as such expect a level of flexibility around working hours to deliver the best service we can to our clients and our contract of employment does state that normal hours of work are 37 per week, Monday to Friday or as required to satisfy the needs of the business and our client. We do discuss working hours and flexibility at interview stage. In return for commitment Edge believes we do offer a competitive salary and excellent training and development opportunities and offer a MINIMUM of 5 days training per year to our employees. Our training schedule and course catalogue is continually being updated and is based on research into needs of digital job roles, our clients and our staff’s personal development plans. We do carry out employee surveys to try and get feedback and we encourage staff to speak to their managers at the one to ones to so we can continue to improve.
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