Pros
That it's remote, I guess.
Cons
Where do I begin? Instructors that get mad when you can't follow their 3 hour lectures, schedules that keep changing on a dime, inconsistent feedback, unclear expectations. It was pretty bad. I was burnt every day trying to get through their training, only to get fired without warning at the end of the program when I couldn't pass the final certification exam on their rushed schedule. At the beginning they make you sign something saying that if you quit in the first two years you'll owe them some $10,000. What they didn't tell me was that they were going to furlough me if I didn't pass the Appian Senior Certificaion by the time they wanted me to. They didn't pay me during this furlough period, but said they'd put me back on payroll when I passed the cert. Then they fired me before Appian would allow me to retake it (there's a 2-week cooldown period between attempts.) Now they're contacting me saying I owe them $1,500 because of a negative PTO balance and because of insurance premiums I was apparently expected to pay while they furloughed me. The HR director, just like everyone else in the company, is very cold and unempathetic. It's a very tough program, not because the material is difficult but because their training style is chaotic and the instructors are cold and will do their best to make you feel bad for not being able to keep up. If you don't do well on an exam or interview, they'll send you an invite to a title-less meeting with your instructor and their boss, which will go just as you would think: they going to tell you you're doing poorly and that you need to get it together. To anyone applying to them or who just got hired, I'd say "Buckle up." It *sounds* like a good gig to be paid to be remotely trained and then to be placed at a company afterward. The reality is that the training is artificially brutal, they only pay you $20/hr for the training (which is just enough to break even in DC), and the placement at a company afterward isn't even guaranteed. There were multiple people in our group that already completed a 3-month training a couple months prior, but they couldn't find placement for them, so they were sending them through another 3-month training.