With the pro's in mind, it's very very important to consider the various downsides to working at FDM, these include:
- The Training is completely unpaid, and the work is full time, making it very difficult to find the time to work a part time job to make any form of money during your training.
-Furthermore, you are forced to become "geographically flexible", you could be asked to relocate from Glasgow to London for example at short notice, and FDM will either offer you a week in a hotel, or two weeks of your rent. This is subpar considering the high costs of living somewhere like London, having likely just graduated from University and being working unpaid for 3-6 months, it's not very likely anyone has the money lying around to be able to fund this move without support from family or some other source.
- On top of this, the salary is incredibly poor, you'll barely be paid graduate level salary, and this doesn't change depending on where you are placed, no matter how much higher the cost of living may end up being.
- You have absolutely no choice as to where you end up placed, you'll be given an interview, most of the time at short notice, then you'll have to attend these interviews despite knowing very little as to what the job entails, as with in my case, the job I was told about, and the job I interviewed for could not be more difficult.
