-if you’re unlucky with your placement, it could be miserable.
-beware: the TDP program is. managed. horribly. This is not a new program, they have been doing this for the better part of a decade and they still don’t have it right. You are a full time employee from the start so this is not an internship. This is or at least was a year long program, with a set “graduation” date where you apply for a final placement which will be a promotion from the TDP position. Generally involves a full grade level change and depending on your review(s) can come with a sizable raise. Coming up to our graduation the TDP program management team sent out zero communications, not even a congratulations the day we graduated. A week after we graduated they sent out communication indicating they would be delaying our promotions 6 weeks (and even then it got delayed further), WITHOUT BACK-PAY to our grad position start date. This is the equivalent of accepting a new internal job that is a grade level above, where you are expected to perform at that higher level but then unexpectedly not being paid that new salary for 6+ weeks. No one from TDP warned us of this until a week AFTER our grad positions started. They said it was due to the timing of yearly reviews and doing it all together “made more sense” despite never requiring a previous graduating TDP class to wait for their promotions. No mention of how missing out on 6+ weeks of that raised pay impacts us. Reviews came a month later and we still weren’t given our promotion packages. Come to find out our managers had our comp packages figured out weeks before we ever graduated and were deliberately delayed by TDP. TDP management never apologized. Never provided an explanation. We asked reasonable, direct questions that went unanswered for weeks (still unanswered as of today).
-if you’re desperate for a way in, this is a way I guess. -Do not expect to be treated like an employee with normal rights until you are well out of the TDP program despite being a full time employee from the start.
