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3.7

68% would recommend to a friend

(20 total reviews)

John Akkara

70% approve of CEO

53% positive business outlook

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5.0
Feb 17, 2023
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Pros

Helped me break into the industry when I had no experience. Gave me paid training, and found me a client to work for. They took a significant cut of the money the client paid for my first two years, to repay the cost of training and placement. From the 3rd year onwards, their cut was minimal. I consider it a fair deal. Trans friendly.

Cons

Not appropriate for experienced developers who can find work easily without assistance.

4.0
Dec 12, 2022
Recommend
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Pros

- Great opportunity grow really fast in the tech industry. - Cover cost for certifications (AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform) - Mentors are very knowledgeable. So if you have questions you can definitely refer to them. - Great community, people from around the world and they try to have fun every Friday. Smoothstack is a company that trains employee to meet industry standard and then deploy them to its partnered companies. Essentially you are working as a contractor for the company. In order to compensate for this exchange you are given a less pay but they cover your learning cost and resource cost. For someone who is trying to get into the industry I see this as a win-win situation.

Cons

- I get paid 55k a year, living in the state of California I'm essentially living paycheck by paycheck. - Locked in contract for 2 years. - PTO are nonexistent this year. However, they are implementing it 2023.

5.0
Aug 19, 2022
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Pros

For me the opportunity to get my foot in the door at a well known company is priceless. I came to smoothstack with a foundation of coding learned online and determination to make it. previously i worked in plumbing sales but needed to make a change in carreer. I'm not going to say it was easy or even moderately difficult because that would be an understatement. the teachers are going to challenge you and force you to think and learn for yourself because that is what is required in the industry. but more than that they will teach you to market yourself. smoothstack will get you interviews with their clients but its up to you and you alone to take interviews with the clients so you need to be able to showcase yourself. thankfully that process is handled excellently by smoothstack staff, so if you do have trouble talking about yourself like i do, staff will be extremely helpful on that front. for me this was the best decision ive made in my entire career. currently in my first contract year with the client.

Cons

the recruitment process is pretty arduous, but i understand its a necessary evil.

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