Definitely a great place to start but leave ASAP!!!
Pros
Education and training in QA and fellow QA co-workers are some of the coolest people i've ever met!!! The things you will learn at SQA will get you contracted to a bigger company. The things you learn at the bigger company will get you hired at another bigger company that will pay you up to 100% more than what SQA will pay you... UP 👏🏽 TO. 👏🏽100% 👏🏽 MORE 👏🏽!!!
Cons
CEO - he has created a business that seems to succeed and stay in business by having a revolving door of employees. The increments of future raises are very low compared to the rest of the industry despite what the CEO and his "research" says. Raises - You start at a REALLY low pay. Once contracted, you automatically make the jump to $40k. When your first review for a raise comes, you can get up to a 25% raise which sounds great but when starting at such a low salary, it doesn't amount to much. Because of this, it really seems that they would rather hire someone new to pay them low and have people leave rather than pay to keep the people that have already gained the knowledge and experience to do a great job. What I get paid now would have taken 4 - 5 years at SQA to get to! Benefits - The benefits provided still have a pretty high out-of-pocket expense and really doesn't cover all that much.
