Revolent Reviews

3.9

74% would recommend to a friend

(200 total reviews)
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James Lloyd-Townshend

76% approve of CEO

67% positive business outlook

Revolent has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 200 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Revolent employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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2.0
28 Nov 2020
Recommend
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Pros

The training Revolent Group provides is very good, and a great way to get your foot in the door with Salesforce and all the career options it can bring. There is a lot of support within the community and mentorship programs etc which is nice. Individual people's experience after training is pretty much entirely dependent on whether they get a placement, and where.

Cons

Many people finish the training only to be left hanging for months, and even over a year in some cases with no interviews or placements on the horizon, and little communication from recruiters or management. While this is a good opportunity to work on completing more certificates, most people are expecting actual work experience, as certificates can only get you so far. Also, since you are not offered a full salary until you are placed, this causes people to be stuck living on minimum wage while being powerless to find a placement, and left in the dark on the process. With the ridiculously enormous buyout from the contract, most people cannot afford to terminate early, and end up stuck making minimum wage and not even getting interviews for placements. I was often ghosted for weeks at a time by the people who were supposed to be setting up interviews for me. I'd say only sign on to Revolent Group if you can afford to spend a year + making minimum wage, studying Salesforce from home, and making your own goals around certificates and projects.

2.0
11 May 2022
Recommend
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Pros

-You get Salesforce, Azure, or AWS certifications through provided "training" -Opportunity to work with various clients of all sizes and scope of projects -Networking -Ability to work remotely -Interview process is straight-forward: phone screen, coding test, presentation/final interview

Cons

-Lack of real ongoing support. They give "tech tasks" which are supposed to challenge you and provide "real world" projects, but they're really lacking and become repetitive. I personally pitched the idea of having the instructors going through a live demo project where they show case a start to finish project. Those I pitched it to loved the idea, but nothing ever came from it -You're often sitting on the bench with no guidance and no projects being pushed your way -Personally, I went 4 for 4 in client interviews, yet towards the end (after numerous internal ppl quit) I was told they could not find me any projects so they were letting me go.... Funny, because some of their clients have since reached out to me and within a week, I have 3 standing offers. I'm not sure why they couldn't find me a project. -There is so much turnover even on the internal operations side. I had a hard time keeping up with who my direct report was, or who to go to with specific questions. When I got off a client and came back to the bench, half the people on the current bench were fired. -The instructors for the L&D team while you're on the bench seem incredibly overwhelmed and just bombard you with a list of projects so that they just have to monitor a spreadsheet you provide updates in, rather than doing actual on-going training. It becomes tedious to provide daily/weekly updates with such detail so they can provide feed back to upper management/"the board". It's almost like you're a child in school. You're given a bunch of documents, projects, trailhead modules to work on, but there's no real critique or going over things. It's simply you providing documentation that you worked on something. -Severance package is horrible. -You get locked in to a 2 year contract and have to pay back 18-24k if you break it early. They INFLATE the cost of training to keep you trapped into a contract. -During training, you're on basically minimum wage ($15/hr). After that, you get paid 55-60k on avg. -Your 2 year contract period does not start from Day 1 of training. It starts either upon completion/graduation of the training or first day of client placement - this was very vague and never got a true answer. -As mentioned above, I went 4 for 4 in interviews where all 4 wanted to bring me on board. Two of them were tied up in 6-8 weeks long paperwork and agreements. It got to the point where the client backed out because it took too long, yet somehow that was my fault. -Everyone who was let go, was done so without warning and caught off guard. -IF YOU JOIN, READ YOUR CONTRACT VERY CAREFULLY BEFORE DECIDING!

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Revolent Response
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We are disappointed to see that you have written many cons about working at Revolent group, if you would like to discuss your comments in more detail please contact us at EmployeeEngagement@revolentgroup.com thank you. The Employee Experience Team
1.0
10 Jul 2022
Recommend
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Pros

Great way to recieve certifications to get a foot into the tech door. Its remote work.

Cons

The pay starts off at $15 an hour until "graduation." However, it was never explained that graduation was based on completion of all certifications and not the stated date on the contract. Unorganized and false representation. Alot of what I was told during the interview process wasn't entirely true. Training was supposed to assist with taking the exams and they didn't. The trainings barely prepared you for the use of Microsoft d365 software. The support needed for this cert just wasn't there. Many of the people who were supposed to assist hadn't even taken the exam and had no experience with the system. So, there was no real idea of the needed materials. There was also, no career development support. Many cohorts sat for days without contact from the company. The clients were never secured as they were supposed to be after graduation. When you're hired you're told that there would be immediate placement into a job. This was also, false. Many who graduated the program are without clients for weeks and are sitting on their hands. This is horrible due to the two year contract that must be signed. If you void the contract you owe around $30k. There is little to no interaction with the manager or a team lead like a regular company. You're assigned a random ambassador that is just a liaison between your cohort and "the board" whoever they are.

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Revolent Response
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It’s disappointing to read that you found your experience to be not what you were expecting it to be. We will address your comments with our senior management team, could you please contact us at EmployeeEngagement@revolentgroup.com The Employee Experience Team
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