Yeah, similar story from Western Europe - graduate consultancy gave me 3 months of Java programming material to essentially self-teach myself straight out of un

Yeah, similar story from Western Europe - graduate consultancy gave me 3 months of Java programming material to essentially self-teach myself straight out of university with 0 programming experience. 3 months later I was starting a C# role at a bulge bracket investment bank where the team was expecting someone with at least some exp. seeing as I was costing 75kpa to them (I received 20k as salary). Only reason I didn't get sent back the first week was my boss taking a liking to me, same story for the other 30/40 'consultants' starting at the same bank at the same time. Worse part was the precondition to accepting the graduate consultancy role was a 20k bond that I would have had to pay if I wanted to leave within 2 years of my first contract. While without them I wouldn't have ended up where I am today, at the same time they earned absolutely zero good will from me due to the terrible wage/cost ratio they gave me and the complete lack of any training while I had to take personal responsibility on the client site for my lack of experience.