Very Misleading - werkgeversreview Anonieme werknemer bij Relativity

I feel incredibly mislead about the testing requirement at Relativity. Throughout the interview process everyone played it down and so I felt fairly confident accepting the job knowing that I'd have to pass the RCA exam to remain employed. After I was hired everyone began to be a lot more honest about the exam. People told me they've cried (a lot), their families didn't see them for six weeks and they were constantly stressed. I know they told me this because they were trying to be comforting but it only made me feel worse. What kind of company wants its employees to feel like this? What kind of company wants new hires to spend their first six weeks feeling anxious, afraid, and stressed? Fyi most HR employees don't have to sit for this exam so they don't really understand what the people they're recruiting have to go through and cannot honeslty answer your questions about it. Adding to that, they had a very sink or swim mentality with training for the test. They claimed people were there to help but when I asked for help the most I received were links to videos or articles (which all new hires have already seen). Nobody walks you through the software. It's self study mixed with a few heavily accelerated workshops (and the workshops are not in your own learning environment so all the examples are scrapped at the end of the day and you have to start from scratch). The people who supervise RCA training are nice but they want to remain hands off. Don't expect them to pop by your desk to check in. Don't expect an invite to their desk to talk things over. The most you'll get is a slack convo (if you initiate). You have to dig around their 6+ websites and find the training materials on your own. Adding to that, the training materials are filled with jargon and do not clearly break down each task into smaller steps. There is so much assumed knowledge and seemingly nowhere to gain this knowledge. You will never be given the right answers for your practice work so for all you know, you could be studying the wrong thing for six weeks. There is no place to troubleshoot when you've made a mistake in the testing environment so you're basically stuck unless one of your peers is kind enough to take the time to help you figure it out (and they're just learning themselves). They're really big on peers helping peers in training but it is truly the blind leading the blind. No one knows what they're doing and honestly, no one has time to help others who are having a hard time catching up. Lastly, you're isolated for the first six weeks of employment so you won't even know what your actual job is like for nearly two months. You'll be seated with people who are also taking the RCA and really won't interact with your actual team at all during this time. It's a ridiculous way to start a job. It's setting staff up for failure. I know they like to think they're making this huge investment in employees but really they're just weeding out people who ask questions. Critical thinking is not valued here. Taking a job at Relativity is absolutely gambling with your livelihood and mental health. The pay is average and honestly, they offer no incentives that are competitive enough to offset this risk. Before you accept an offer here be sure to watch the training videos on their website. If you can't follow along then you probably won't do well here.