I was looking to get help with getting employed in the tech industry as I am a recent graduate and am not getting luck for the past three months of applying. I was researching SynergisticIT. There are many reviews that say SynergisticIT bootcamp is a scam. I'm sure, like me, most jobseekers go with the reviews to decide; however, reviews can be manipulated. Does anyone have any real-time experience?

Has anybody here worked with SynergisticIT? What are your thoughts about this company?

I was browsing through looking for CS jobs and came across SynergisticIT. I made the right decision to look them up and that turned out to be a great idea. I read the Google reviews and it seems like they are a coding bootcamp company making fake job listing to get more customers. They also insult their applicants by saying they are only offering them the bootcamp instead of a job because applicant is unqualified.

The person replying to these reviews responses is super unprofessional and sounds like someone out of Hotel Hell. You peeps should check out the google reviews yourself. It will be a very fun read.

I know that these staffing/training services aren't ideal, but its something I have to consider. It almost sounds too good to be true. They say you will be guaranteed a 90k+ salary job after you finish 3-5 months of training with them. You pay in total $25,000.... 10k up front.... 15k later in however many payments. I understand some other companies do this kind of service, but paying for something up front is what scares me. Is this legitimate, can anyone vouch for SynergisticIT?

So far they haven’t explicitly asked for money. However, in their job offer there is a paragraph about training:

“Salary: $XX/hr. And are paid semi-monthly. The paydays are the 15th (or the last working day before the 15th) and the previous working day of each month. Training is $40/hr. Hours of work: 40 hours, and employees are entitled to overtime pay for all hours worked beyond 40 in a work week. You will be eligible to receive the following…..“

Are they saying I’m paying them $40/hr for training? Also, I can’t find anything that says I would need to reimburse the company if training isn’t completed, but I’m suspicious that this is the case.

Anyone have direct experience with this company? I never interviewed with them, but I was sent a job offer after applying.

I was just contacted by an employee (I assume) from synergistic IT, a company I applied to work in. However, they contacted me via message and only asked for my resume, as well as stating that they will contact me on another day. I was given some scam jobs recently because my data was probably leaked, so I’m a bit distrustful, so I searched anything about the person contacting me as they used a @synergisticit email, but the searches only came up with their profile on LinkedIn and her association with the company, and it showed that she was “actively looking for jobs”. I could not find any other information of them working for said company, so it’s making me wary. But at this point, I want to hold onto any string I can in search for a job.

So long story short, does this seem like another scam? Should I accept their contact or should I avoid it? Is there anyone who has experienced being contacted by Synergestic IT before (truly contacted and maybe even worked for them) and can tell me if this is legit or not? If it’s legit, what should I prepare for?

Thank you.

I'm a senior graduating this December, and I am not very good at all at CS. I love it but I suck at it. I haven't gotten any internships or done any big personal projects, but I have a broad exposure to a lot of different stacks and DBs and what not like a bit of react, SQL, etc. and some good projects on my resume but they are all school projects. Whenever I have been able to get internship interviews in the past, I always forget the terminology or vocabulary or whatever for the one particular thing they ask me about. I haven't made it to an OA or coding interview yet, but I always get dropped after the second stage when the first stage is the social/behavioral, and the second stage is talking with a CS person and them asking me quiz questions about theory and stuff like that.

In the current market the way it is, I don't really stand a chance at competing against the billions and billions and billions of boys & girls & men & women who are far better and more powerful than me. So I am considering giving all my money to one of the scam systems like SynergisticIT and those kinds of things.

I'm wondering, are there any statistics available on the number of people who went through with SynergisticIT and completed the program, but were still never able to get a job? I know the way it's set up they are incentivized to get me a job since when they do I'll have to pay them the rest of the money, but since I pay them upfront it also seems like they are also at least incentivized to take the initial payment, put me through the training, and then not end up getting me a job.

So im wondering if there is any data out there available on this

I was applying for jobs and i got an email from synergistic it, day later they called me. Telling me about this plan where i go through their training, and after that they apply me for jobs in thr fortune 500 companies. Catch is i need to pay 10k upfront and 15k payable once i have a job, which they said they would be providing. Any advice, thoughts, or inputs on this? Would really appreciate anything.

As the title states, they reached out and I’m thinking about it. Not very confident in the market rn to get a response anytime soon.

If anyone has experience or knows about their program please let me know :)

I come across their candidates, so I want a 2nd opinion. Hiring for our mid-size company with 600+ employees and approx. 2 billion in revenue?

TLDR: Don't apply to any of their posts. They just want to sell you a resume service.

I recently applied to a job posted by a company called Synergie Systems on LinkedIn. It seemed pretty above board from the posting.

This morning I woke up to an email in my junk folder, subject "You are Selected – Let’s go through the Onboarding Process!". Sweet! I've been applying for jobs nearly every day since getting laid off 2 and a half years ago.

The first paragraph was promising, saying they are impressed and want to move forward. The second paragraph gave away the grift. They found "certain gaps in my resume, 6-9%" to be specific. They then go on to tell me how I can book a consultation with their senior recruiting team and learn to be a better candidate for future roles.

The email then closed with this beautiful pitch: "Many of our previously placed candidates—including roles like Data Analyst, Java Developer, and Business Analyst and many more—have successfully followed this exact path and are now contributing to client projects across various domains. You could be NEXT."

Edit: grammar and typos.

Edit 2: This post is 7 days old and suddenly 5 different accounts have replied saying how they don't think they are a scam, how they are actually great. Several of those accounts were created just today. That's not fishy.

Edit 3: The bots are working hard.

Recently got laid off from my last SWE job of a little over 2 years working at a government contractor due to obvious budget concerns. Things seemed pretty bleak because of everything I heard about the job market and mounting student debt, but applied to a few jobs while I studied Leetcode and somehow landed with an amazing offer with not too many applications. Never lose hope guys.

Previous job:

• 80k, 5 days a week in person

• Secret clearance

• 1-1.5 hour commute each way

Offer:

• 150k base, 20k sign on bonus, up to 12k bonus

• Hybrid, 20 minute commute

I’m considering doing one of these and and just trying to figure out which of these types of upskilling or job finding contract companies is the best, as well as what experiences people here have had with them. I know a lot of people have had bad experiences with them or are just against them in general but it seems like my only option right now.

Ive heard that synergisticIT gets higher paying jobs, and you can choose where you’ll be located, but the 10,000 upfront is a lot I’m not sure if I’ll be able to do that, and also the 6-8 months training is a long time and would cut into my fall semester coming up if I started this summer.

Then I’ve heard revature doesn’t make you pay them, and they pay you minimum wage actually, which is nice, but I’ve heard that their training is 2 years, and you can’t choose where you will be located, which just seems insanely inconvenient unless I’ve got that wrong.

Then ascension I’ve seen most people just say is a straight up scam.

Are there any other companies like this? Ones that are better for the things I’ve listed about these three?

Also here is my background a bit if anyone is curious. Basically the reason I am considering one of these companies:

I’m a senior who will be graduating this fall, in December 2023. I was supposed to graduate this spring, but I put off graduation and took an extra semester so I could have one more summer to get an internship, because I wasn’t able to get one for any other past summers, and I wanted to have at least one before graduating (I have no internships, no experience, no personal projects, only school).

I’ve been applying for about 5-20 internships every single day without compromise for the past 2 years, so it’s been multiple thousands. At first I only applied to the ones in my area but for the last year and a half I’ve been applying for ones all over the country, paid and unpaid, small and large companies, remote and in-person, and haven just been applying to everything I see. and would be willing to take out a loan and live in my car or something to do an unpaid in-person internship in a different state. I just need something.

I’ve also updated my resume many times after taking advice from the career center at my school, from HR people I know personally, from Software people I know personally, from this subreddit, from 3 different discords focused on this stuff, including the one for this subreddit.

So with thousands of applications and a resume that’s been thoroughly reviewed and approved of by this subreddit, my school’s people, and people in the industry, I’ve had about 5 or 6 interviews, 2 of which were technical.

It’s very sad for me because I don’t know anyone else personally who has had this experience. The people in my peer group who always ask me for help with projects, 10+ people off the top of my head who are of equal or lesser skill level, all either have had internships, or have one lined up for this summer, and all of them also have job offers for once they graduate. I don’t understand it seems like I’m just unlucky but this is like supernatural levels of unlucky especially looking at the others in my classes. I’m wondering, could answering the demographics questions saying I am a white male be somehow hurting my chances? I don’t know what else it could be.

I'm a senior graduating this December, and I am not very good at all at CS. I love it but I suck at it. I haven't gotten any internships or done any big personal projects, but I have a broad exposure to a lot of different stacks and DBs and what not like a bit of react, SQL, etc. and some good projects on my resume but they are all school projects. Whenever I have been able to get internship interviews in the past, I always forget the terminology or vocabulary or whatever for the one particular thing they ask me about. I haven't made it to an OA or coding interview yet, but I always get dropped after the second stage when the first stage is the social/behavioral, and the second stage is talking with a CS person and them asking me quiz questions about theory and stuff like that.

In the current market the way it is, I don't really stand a chance at competing against the billions and billions and billions of boys & girls & men & women who are far better and more powerful than me. So I am considering giving all my money to one of the scam systems like SynergisticIT and those kinds of things.

I'm wondering, are there any statistics available on the number of people who went through with SynergisticIT and completed the program, but were still never able to get a job? I know the way it's set up they are incentivized to get me a job since when they do I'll have to pay them the rest of the money, but since I pay them upfront it also seems like they are also at least incentivized to take the initial payment, put me through the training, and then not end up getting me a job.

So im wondering if there is any data out there available on this