Posted by: BannedUser June 11, 2011
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Guys,
I have some "bad" news to share. Please think at least 10 times before applying for an "online" training. I paid 300 bucks as part of a security deposit (that they had agreed to refund if I quit the program before the end of third lecture) and after the second day of Training, I realized that they were big time scammers.
The recruiter had "promised" me that I'd be making anywhere between 60-90 bucks (in all honesty, she wasn't wrong, if you could land a job as a SAP FI CO consultant, you'll make anywhere from 70k - 140k or even beyond) but there had to be a catch. Surely, you couldn't get a job that paid that high after 4 weeks of training. I suppose I was fooled by the big talk and enrolled but like I aforementioned, by the second day, I started realizing something fishy. FIrst, they had told me that the training would be 60-90 min long. By the end of day 2, my online instructor had spent 55 mins total. Further, he was supposedly in L.A. but on Day 2, the frequent honks of cars was a dead giveaway that he was actually in some part of India! What an idiot!
Anyway, I acted promptly to ensure that I got the money refunded. I told her that SAP was too vague for me and I'd rather start training for QA module but in a few weeks time. She insisted that I allowed them to keep the security deposit so that they could "hold" my "guaranteed" placement to avoid any unfortunate event that somebody else grabbed my spot. What a load of crap. I told her that I'd rather she contacted me in 3 weeks time and asked her to process the refund. If I don't see it refunded by Wednesday, I'll be calling my bank for a fradulent transaction.
In short, forget the 200 bucks, I almost fell for the scam and lost my 1500 bucks. Good thing I actually googled the institute for reviews. Basically, how they operated was pretty simple. They had phone numbers based in the US but they were actually operating from India itself! So just do a quick math. 25-30 hrs of jibberish "lecture" with an objective of earning 1500 bucks (50/hour!). At the end of the course, they wouldn't answer phone calls, even if they did, they'd continuously ignore your pleas of placements and in the end, you'd have ended up losing both the money and your own precious time.
Hence, I reckon its better if you took a course from an actual consultancy so you could nag them in an event their promise wasn't fulfilled.
Don't fall for this "online training" crap folks.
I have some "bad" news to share. Please think at least 10 times before applying for an "online" training. I paid 300 bucks as part of a security deposit (that they had agreed to refund if I quit the program before the end of third lecture) and after the second day of Training, I realized that they were big time scammers.
The recruiter had "promised" me that I'd be making anywhere between 60-90 bucks (in all honesty, she wasn't wrong, if you could land a job as a SAP FI CO consultant, you'll make anywhere from 70k - 140k or even beyond) but there had to be a catch. Surely, you couldn't get a job that paid that high after 4 weeks of training. I suppose I was fooled by the big talk and enrolled but like I aforementioned, by the second day, I started realizing something fishy. FIrst, they had told me that the training would be 60-90 min long. By the end of day 2, my online instructor had spent 55 mins total. Further, he was supposedly in L.A. but on Day 2, the frequent honks of cars was a dead giveaway that he was actually in some part of India! What an idiot!
Anyway, I acted promptly to ensure that I got the money refunded. I told her that SAP was too vague for me and I'd rather start training for QA module but in a few weeks time. She insisted that I allowed them to keep the security deposit so that they could "hold" my "guaranteed" placement to avoid any unfortunate event that somebody else grabbed my spot. What a load of crap. I told her that I'd rather she contacted me in 3 weeks time and asked her to process the refund. If I don't see it refunded by Wednesday, I'll be calling my bank for a fradulent transaction.
In short, forget the 200 bucks, I almost fell for the scam and lost my 1500 bucks. Good thing I actually googled the institute for reviews. Basically, how they operated was pretty simple. They had phone numbers based in the US but they were actually operating from India itself! So just do a quick math. 25-30 hrs of jibberish "lecture" with an objective of earning 1500 bucks (50/hour!). At the end of the course, they wouldn't answer phone calls, even if they did, they'd continuously ignore your pleas of placements and in the end, you'd have ended up losing both the money and your own precious time.
Hence, I reckon its better if you took a course from an actual consultancy so you could nag them in an event their promise wasn't fulfilled.
Don't fall for this "online training" crap folks.